Power outage history
Potter County Pennsylvania
8.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
23rd most of 67 in Pennsylvania 1.3× 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 Potter's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Potter, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2024 | No storm report | 1,008 | 11% | 8.3 d | 8.2 d | 52k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,133 | 23% | 2.1 d | 29 h | 34k |
| May 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,318 | 14% | 48 h | 33 h | 24k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 877 | 9% | 26 h | 24 h | 21k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 795 | 9% | 2.0 d | 21 h | 20k |
| May 4, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 871 | 9% | 21 h | 20 h | 17k |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,429 | 15% | 29 h | 20 h | 17k |
| Apr 18, 2020 | No storm report | 762 | 8% | 19 h | 18 h | 14k |
| Jan 15, 2021 | No storm report | 779 | 8% | 17 h | 18 h | 13k |
| Jun 12, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,619 | 17% | 17 h | 14 h | 13k |
| Jul 30, 2018 | No storm report | 795 | 9% | 16 h | 19 h | 12k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | No storm report | 2,718 | 29% | 5.2 h | 2.2 h | 11k |
| Dec 2, 2019 | No storm report | 794 | 8% | 15 h | 3.0 h | 10k |
| Mar 7, 2023 | Winter storm | 948 | 10% | 12 h | 3.5 h | 10k |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 560 | 6% | 18 h | 15 h | 9.0k |
| Apr 17, 2023 | No storm report | 759 | 8% | 11 h | 11 h | 8.2k |
| Jul 16, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,622 | 17% | 7.5 h | 6.5 h | 7.9k |
| Jul 27, 2020 | No storm report | 787 | 8% | 9.2 h | 13 h | 7.2k |
| Apr 29, 2025 | No storm report | 528 | 6% | 18 h | 17 h | 6.9k |
| Mar 17, 2023 | No storm report | 761 | 8% | 8.8 h | 8.8 h | 6.6k |
| Mar 22, 2023 | No storm report | 1,023 | 11% | 10 h | 1.8 h | 6.3k |
| Mar 8, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,175 | 13% | 5.5 h | 16 h | 6.0k |
| Jul 10, 2025 | No storm report | 774 | 8% | 7.8 h | 6.2 h | 6.0k |
| Aug 17, 2021 | No storm report | 749 | 8% | 7.5 h | 4.5 h | 5.6k |
| Sep 12, 2019 | No storm report | 1,007 | 11% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 5.5k |
| Feb 7, 2023 | No storm report | 1,154 | 12% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 5.5k |
| Mar 28, 2016 | No storm report | 417 | 4% | 20 h | – | 5.4k |
| Jun 17, 2020 | No storm report | 686 | 7% | 8.0 h | 8.0 h | 5.4k |
| Feb 12, 2017 | No storm report | 774 | 8% | 15 h | 12 h | 5.3k |
| Jan 25, 2017 | No storm report | 759 | 8% | 7.0 h | 7.0 h | 5.3k |
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 Potter from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 70%
- Thunderstorms 24%
- Winter storm 3.1%
- Tropical storm 1.5%
- Windstorm 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Potter
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 |
| Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (PA) | Cooperative | – | – | – | 22.4 | 18k |
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
- Cameron 17 h
- Steuben, NY 12 h
- Potter (this county) 8.4 h
- McKean 7.9 h
- Tioga 7.3 h
- Allegany, NY 6.7 h
- Clinton 5.1 h
- Lycoming 3.9 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 9,352 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 →