– 0% of Monroe out 0 customers out in Pennsylvania

Power outage history

Monroe County Pennsylvania

14hours

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

8th most of 67 in Pennsylvania 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 3, 2018 54% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 14h / yr State average 6.0 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 1.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 27hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 3.9days Mar 5, 2018, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 78% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2018 2.5 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 85,900 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 Monroe's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Monroe, hours without power per customer

MonroeUS median countyPennsylvania average

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
Mar 2, 2018	Winter storm	46,392	54%	3.4 d	2.9 d	2.8M
May 15, 2018	Thunderstorms	37,109	43%	3.3 d	2.9 d	1.2M
Mar 5, 2018	No storm report	19,493	23%	3.9 d	2.9 d	710k
Nov 22, 2024	Winter storm	8,677	10%	2.7 d	14 h	255k
Dec 2, 2019	Winter storm	11,289	13%	2.1 d	33 h	239k
Aug 7, 2023	Thunderstorms	7,170	8%	2.0 d	27 h	197k
Mar 11, 2024	Windstorm	14,689	17%	32 h	25 h	167k
Dec 19, 2025	Windstorm	9,738	11%	32 h	29 h	153k
Sep 7, 2023	Thunderstorms	12,234	14%	44 h	29 h	144k
Jul 6, 2021	Thunderstorms	14,383	17%	26 h	21 h	144k
Jun 26, 2024	Thunderstorms	11,790	14%	27 h	23 h	111k
Aug 9, 2024	Hurricane Debby	7,390	9%	36 h	31 h	103k
Aug 4, 2020	Hurricane Isaias	10,212	12%	27 h	23 h	99k
Apr 3, 2016	Windstorm	7,988	9%	25 h	20 h	88k
Mar 7, 2022	No storm report	7,439	9%	26 h	24 h	68k
Nov 15, 2020	Thunderstorms	6,723	8%	25 h	21 h	66k
Nov 5, 2025	No storm report	6,631	8%	19 h	20 h	60k
Feb 28, 2024	No storm report	5,043	6%	19 h	18 h	44k
Sep 1, 2021	Hurricane Ida	7,920	9%	20 h	4.8 h	41k
Apr 3, 2024	No storm report	3,797	4%	22 h	–	39k
Oct 31, 2019	Thunderstorms	3,284	4%	19 h	–	38k
Jul 12, 2022	Thunderstorms	6,436	7%	24 h	22 h	37k
Jan 14, 2024	No storm report	6,011	7%	21 h	10 h	37k
May 14, 2019	No storm report	3,366	4%	11 h	–	36k
Dec 25, 2020	No storm report	3,811	4%	18 h	–	35k
Mar 2, 2017	No storm report	3,323	4%	11 h	–	31k
Nov 2, 2020	No storm report	3,912	5%	14 h	–	31k
Jun 17, 2018	No storm report	2,663	3%	11 h	–	27k
Feb 24, 2016	No storm report	4,405	5%	15 h	27 h	27k
Dec 23, 2024	No storm report	4,176	5%	12 h	–	25k

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 Monroe from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Winter storm 44%
Thunderstorms 26%
No storm on record 22%
Windstorm 4.6%
Tropical storm 3.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Monroe

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
PPL Electric Utilities Corp	Investor Owned	198	116	0.97	18.6	1.3M

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

Pike 39 h
Sussex, NJ 31 h
Wayne 26 h
Warren, NJ 15 h
Monroe (this county) 14 h
Carbon 6.1 h
Northampton 5.3 h
Lackawanna 3.3 h
Luzerne 2.5 h

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 85,900 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 →