Power outage history
Snyder County Pennsylvania
3.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
57th most of 67 in Pennsylvania 45% 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 Snyder's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Snyder, 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 15, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,762 | 18% | 23 h | 20 h | 30k |
| Feb 13, 2024 | Winter storm | 2,252 | 11% | 35 h | 33 h | 25k |
| Mar 2, 2018 | No storm report | 2,071 | 10% | 33 h | 29 h | 23k |
| Jul 24, 2018 | No storm report | 14,464 | 68% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 19k |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,911 | 9% | 26 h | 25 h | 18k |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,426 | 21% | 21 h | 7.5 h | 17k |
| Jun 29, 2019 | No storm report | 1,274 | 6% | 17 h | 3.0 h | 12k |
| Apr 14, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,018 | 5% | 19 h | – | 12k |
| Jul 17, 2023 | No storm report | 792 | 4% | 14 h | – | 8.6k |
| Jun 16, 2015 | No storm report | 1,324 | 6% | 6.2 h | 5.2 h | 7.9k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 508 | 2% | 22 h | – | 7.9k |
| Feb 9, 2023 | No storm report | 8,046 | 38% | 1.5 h | 48 min | 7.7k |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,803 | 8% | 12 h | 9.5 h | 7.6k |
| Oct 30, 2017 | No storm report | 604 | 3% | 17 h | – | 6.9k |
| May 5, 2017 | No storm report | 1,215 | 6% | 9.2 h | 8.8 h | 6.5k |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,467 | 7% | 4.5 h | 3.5 h | 6.4k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 1,137 | 5% | 11 h | 18 h | 6.4k |
| May 15, 2018 | No storm report | 1,841 | 9% | 6.2 h | 1.8 h | 5.7k |
| Nov 16, 2018 | Winter storm | 669 | 3% | 13 h | – | 5.6k |
| Jun 30, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 694 | 3% | 9.2 h | – | 5.5k |
| Sep 21, 2024 | Flooding | 1,546 | 7% | 8.0 h | 6.5 h | 4.9k |
| Jan 14, 2024 | No storm report | 506 | 2% | 13 h | – | 4.9k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | No storm report | 572 | 3% | 13 h | – | 4.8k |
| Aug 9, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 520 | 2% | 14 h | – | 4.7k |
| May 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 813 | 4% | 7.5 h | – | 4.3k |
| May 3, 2019 | No storm report | 7,896 | 37% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 4.2k |
| Jun 28, 2023 | No storm report | 3,409 | 16% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 4.0k |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 2,672 | 13% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 3.9k |
| Aug 19, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 498 | 2% | 9.2 h | – | 3.8k |
| Jun 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,520 | 7% | 10 h | 10 h | 3.7k |
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 Snyder from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 57%
- Thunderstorms 29%
- Winter storm 9.8%
- Tropical storm 2.0%
- Flooding 1.3%
- Windstorm 1.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Snyder
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- Juniata 6.6 h
- Mifflin 4.9 h
- Northumberland 4.5 h
- Snyder (this county) 3.6 h
- Union 1.7 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 21,359 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 →