Power Outages in Pennsylvania by City

Power outage record for Pennsylvania

• 2024: Pennsylvania electric customers averaged 1.35 outages and 336 minutes (5.6 hours) without power. Average across all reporting US utilities: 611 minutes. That makes Pennsylvania 30th of 50 states (1 = fewest outage minutes).
• Storm days vs. ordinary days: leaving out major event days, the figure drops to 131 minutes (US 126). About 61% of the year's outage time came on a handful of severe days.
• Six-year record: the worst year was 2024 (336 minutes), the best 2022 (200). 2024 was well above the 2019–2023 average of 251 minutes.
• Largest utilities: FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co, 2,076,402 customers, 403 minutes; PECO Energy Co, 1,688,261 customers, 212 minutes; PPL Electric Utilities Corp, 1,470,255 customers, 455 minutes.
• Spread between utilities: among 5 utilities with 25,000+ customers, UGI Utilities, Inc had the least outage time (182 minutes) and PPL Electric Utilities Corp the most (455 minutes). Source: EIA Form 861 reliability data, 2019–2024
• Storm record since 2015: 20,686 NOAA storm reports in Pennsylvania, led by thunderstorm wind 10,676, flash flood 2,311, winter weather 1,871. Power outages are named in 162 storm episodes. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database
• March 2, 2018, Western Montgomery (high wind): “At one point more than 115,000 customers were without power in Montgomery County.” Source: NOAA Storm Events Database
• November 14, 2018, Butler (winter weather): “Power outages and large tree limbs were down across the county. 56,000 West Penn customers were without power. 16,000 Duquesne Light customers were also without power.” Source: NOAA Storm Events Database
• March 3, 2023, Fayette (high wind): “At the storm's peak, over 20,000 customers were without power in the county.” Source: NOAA Storm Events Database

Checked September 2026.