Power outage history
Beaver County Pennsylvania
6.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
34th most of 67 in Pennsylvania close to the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Beaver's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Beaver, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 30,551 | 39% | 5.0 d | 3.1 d | 857k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 16,406 | 21% | 2.3 d | 47 h | 282k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 11,833 | 15% | 2.2 d | 36 h | 236k |
| Jun 17, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 16,833 | 22% | 44 h | 15 h | 203k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Winter storm | 6,779 | 9% | 2.2 d | 44 h | 184k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 16,719 | 22% | 46 h | 18 h | 172k |
| Sep 6, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 9,580 | 12% | 22 h | 15 h | 137k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 8,599 | 11% | 44 h | 11 h | 118k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | No storm report | 6,740 | 9% | 27 h | 22 h | 111k |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,493 | 10% | 16 h | 14 h | 54k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 7,302 | 9% | 19 h | 17 h | 53k |
| May 2, 2017 | No storm report | 4,045 | 5% | 13 h | 16 h | 32k |
| Jul 10, 2024 | No storm report | 4,584 | 6% | 8.5 h | 5.8 h | 29k |
| Feb 4, 2022 | Winter storm | 5,210 | 7% | 6.2 h | 1.5 h | 29k |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,989 | 5% | 15 h | 18 h | 27k |
| Mar 8, 2017 | No storm report | 4,674 | 6% | 8.5 h | 8.0 h | 23k |
| Jun 24, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 5,254 | 7% | 14 h | 13 h | 23k |
| May 28, 2020 | Tropical Storm Bertha | 6,838 | 9% | 3.2 h | 2.2 h | 22k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,065 | 5% | 9.5 h | 6.8 h | 21k |
| Jul 9, 2018 | No storm report | 1,311 | 2% | 20 h | – | 20k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,317 | 6% | 7.5 h | 7.5 h | 19k |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Hurricane Beryl | 2,642 | 3% | 9.0 h | – | 16k |
| May 29, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,116 | 8% | 11 h | 2.2 h | 15k |
| Feb 12, 2017 | No storm report | 1,028 | 1% | 16 h | – | 13k |
| Sep 21, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 3,708 | 5% | 6.5 h | – | 13k |
| Jun 29, 2019 | No storm report | 4,505 | 6% | 5.2 h | 8.0 h | 13k |
| Aug 29, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,130 | 4% | 7.2 h | – | 12k |
| Apr 4, 2018 | No storm report | 2,414 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 12k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Windstorm | 3,100 | 4% | 5.2 h | – | 11k |
| Sep 9, 2018 | Flooding | 2,931 | 4% | 7.0 h | – | 11k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Beaver from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 57%
- No storm on record 17%
- Windstorm 17%
- Winter storm 7.4%
- Tropical storm 1.5%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Beaver
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Pennsylvania territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | Investor Owned | 647 | 217 | 2.02 | 18.8 | 1.8M |
| Duquesne Light Co | Investor Owned | 856 | 103 | 1.27 | 23.5 | 553k |
| Borough of Ellwood City | PA | – | – | – | – | 26k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Hancock, WV 10 h
- Columbiana, OH 8.2 h
- Butler 8.1 h
- Washington 7.5 h
- Beaver (this county) 6.5 h
- Allegheny 6.1 h
- Lawrence 4.7 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 77,618 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →