Power outage history
Venango County Pennsylvania
12hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
13th most of 67 in Pennsylvania 1.8× 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 Venango'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 32 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Venango, 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 | 16,300 | 63% | 3.3 d | 2.2 d | 573k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 9,289 | 36% | 2.4 d | 40 h | 199k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 5,844 | 22% | 2.6 d | 39 h | 134k |
| May 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,994 | 15% | 31 h | 21 h | 61k |
| May 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 4,223 | 16% | 29 h | 18 h | 50k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | No storm report | 4,430 | 17% | 32 h | 27 h | 35k |
| Jan 12, 2024 | No storm report | 7,084 | 27% | 7.5 h | 4.8 h | 29k |
| Jun 18, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,278 | 9% | 23 h | 13 h | 28k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | Windstorm | 4,607 | 18% | 21 h | 12 h | 27k |
| May 11, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,799 | 7% | 28 h | 25 h | 25k |
| May 16, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,947 | 11% | 23 h | 19 h | 22k |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Flooding | 2,707 | 10% | 26 h | 22 h | 21k |
| Jul 24, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,370 | 9% | 22 h | 19 h | 19k |
| Jun 21, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,599 | 6% | 19 h | 21 h | 18k |
| Mar 8, 2017 | No storm report | 2,182 | 8% | 25 h | 20 h | 16k |
| Jun 16, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,638 | 10% | 8.5 h | 6.2 h | 15k |
| Feb 25, 2022 | Winter storm | 2,232 | 9% | 14 h | 6.5 h | 15k |
| Jun 28, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,049 | 8% | 12 h | 14 h | 14k |
| Dec 29, 2025 | No storm report | 2,292 | 9% | 14 h | 8.8 h | 12k |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Winter storm | 4,090 | 16% | 7.8 h | 5.2 h | 12k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Windstorm | 2,490 | 10% | 12 h | 9.0 h | 11k |
| Aug 4, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,957 | 8% | 6.5 h | 3.2 h | 11k |
| Aug 17, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,082 | 8% | 14 h | 14 h | 11k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 3,631 | 14% | 28 h | 1.0 h | 11k |
| Sep 10, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,609 | 6% | 16 h | 17 h | 9.8k |
| May 21, 2025 | No storm report | 890 | 3% | 20 h | – | 9.7k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,359 | 5% | 20 h | 19 h | 9.7k |
| Dec 11, 2019 | No storm report | 7,189 | 28% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 9.1k |
| Mar 6, 2022 | No storm report | 2,201 | 8% | 6.5 h | 1.5 h | 8.7k |
| Oct 6, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,376 | 5% | 11 h | 11 h | 8.3k |
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 Venango from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 54%
- No storm on record 30%
- Windstorm 10%
- Winter storm 4.0%
- Flooding 1.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Venango
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 |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | PA | – | – | – | – | 44k |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 16.9 | 24k |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 16.1 | 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.
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 26,075 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 →