Power Out Map
– 0% of Elk out 0 customers out in Pennsylvania

Power outage history

Elk County Pennsylvania

6.5hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

35th most of 67 in Pennsylvania close to the national median

Worst outage on record May 15, 2018 41% of customers out · 90% back in 25 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.5h / yr State average 6.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.1days Aug 27, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 46% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 9.8 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 16,981 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Elk's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Elk, hours without power per customer

ElkUS median countyPennsylvania average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 3.7 ’15 3.3 ’16 5.0 ’17 9.8 ’18 6.3 ’19 4.6 ’20 7.7 ’21 9.1 ’22 4.1 ’23 4.2 ’24 6.0 ’25 US 6.6 PA 6.0

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
May 15, 2018 Thunderstorms 7,031 41% 31 h 25 h 87k
Jun 16, 2022 Thunderstorms 6,514 38% 46 h 23 h 76k
Dec 11, 2021 No storm report 2,238 13% 24 h 21 h 44k
May 4, 2021 Tornadoes 2,004 12% 24 h 7.0 h 44k
Mar 8, 2017 No storm report 2,989 18% 21 h 7.2 h 29k
Mar 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,197 7% 47 h 44 h 27k
Jul 20, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,125 7% 40 h 39 h 25k
Aug 27, 2020 Thunderstorms 853 5% 2.1 d 47 h 23k
May 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,829 17% 28 h 24 h 23k
Aug 14, 2016 No storm report 1,774 10% 11 h 11 h 19k
May 4, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,626 10% 25 h 23 h 17k
Jun 28, 2022 No storm report 1,845 11% 9.0 h 1.5 h 16k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +8h 90% by +24h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Elk from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 54%
  • Thunderstorms 38%
  • Tornadoes 7.2%
  • Winter storm 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Elk

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
United Electric Coop, Inc PA – – – 15.9 120k

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

Across Pennsylvania

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Pennsylvania counties →

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 16,981 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 →