Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.54 times the US outage time per person and 0.73 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 46 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Novhardest months

September and November made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 14, 2021, reached 11,099 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 23.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	95,464	61	1
2016	87,664	69	1
2017	146,395	61	2
2018	186,028	84	2
2019	185,290	101	4
2020	176,615	109	4
2021	455,694	118	8
2022	181,757	85	4
2023	191,541	92	3

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 14, 2021	23.8	11,099	139,076
Mar 2, 2018	45.8	5,574	53,849
Sep 14, 2021	4.5	13,723	51,190
Sep 7, 2023	9.2	6,389	48,257
Dec 23, 2022	28.5	7,287	43,077

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.