Power outage history
Lawrence County Pennsylvania
4.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
47th most of 67 in Pennsylvania 29% below 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 Lawrence's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lawrence, 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 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 16,345 | 45% | 2.8 d | 45 h | 243k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 10,124 | 28% | 2.4 d | 39 h | 137k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 3,016 | 8% | 2.3 d | 46 h | 86k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,865 | 13% | 25 h | 21 h | 44k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,788 | 5% | 43 h | – | 34k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Windstorm | 11,482 | 32% | 7.0 h | 5.5 h | 28k |
| Aug 6, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,956 | 22% | 6.2 h | 3.5 h | 20k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | No storm report | 1,146 | 3% | 17 h | – | 13k |
| Dec 14, 2015 | No storm report | 3,765 | 10% | 6.0 h | 4.8 h | 12k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,547 | 4% | 12 h | – | 9.4k |
| Mar 8, 2017 | No storm report | 2,172 | 6% | 8.8 h | 9.8 h | 8.7k |
| Aug 22, 2021 | No storm report | 14,055 | 39% | 1.0 h | 3.0 h | 8.4k |
| Jul 19, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,114 | 17% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 8.1k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,492 | 4% | 8.8 h | – | 7.9k |
| Oct 26, 2024 | No storm report | 1,199 | 3% | 10 h | – | 7.5k |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Flooding | 1,057 | 3% | 11 h | – | 6.7k |
| May 18, 2017 | No storm report | 8,203 | 23% | 1.0 h | 1.5 h | 6.6k |
| Aug 10, 2015 | No storm report | 1,146 | 3% | 7.8 h | – | 6.5k |
| Jul 20, 2024 | No storm report | 868 | 2% | 7.8 h | – | 6.5k |
| Apr 13, 2024 | No storm report | 1,388 | 4% | 9.2 h | – | 6.3k |
| Jun 6, 2018 | No storm report | 6,869 | 19% | 2.5 h | 1.8 h | 6.0k |
| Oct 6, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 5,980 | 17% | 1.5 h | 48 min | 5.9k |
| Apr 21, 2023 | No storm report | 1,848 | 5% | 4.2 h | 12 min | 5.7k |
| Dec 31, 2018 | No storm report | 770 | 2% | 12 h | – | 5.7k |
| May 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 920 | 3% | 8.5 h | – | 5.5k |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,396 | 4% | 5.5 h | – | 5.2k |
| Sep 20, 2019 | No storm report | 1,197 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 4.8k |
| Apr 14, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,095 | 3% | 7.8 h | – | 4.7k |
| Sep 9, 2018 | Flooding | 834 | 2% | 9.2 h | – | 4.6k |
| Jun 28, 2019 | Flooding | 1,346 | 4% | 8.2 h | – | 4.5k |
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 Lawrence from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 41%
- Windstorm 28%
- No storm on record 24%
- Winter storm 4.5%
- Flooding 1.5%
- Tropical storm 1.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lawrence
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 |
| Borough of Ellwood City | PA | – | – | – | – | 26k |
| Borough of New Wilmington | PA | – | – | – | – | 4.2k |
| Borough of Wampum | PA | – | – | – | – | 2.7k |
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
- Columbiana, OH 8.2 h
- Butler 8.1 h
- Mercer 7.3 h
- Beaver 6.5 h
- Lawrence (this county) 4.7 h
- Mahoning, OH 3.4 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 36,062 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 →