Power outage history
Bradford County Pennsylvania
7.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
27th most of 67 in Pennsylvania 1.2× 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 Bradford's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Bradford, 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 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 8,447 | 27% | 3.6 d | 2.7 d | 347k |
| Apr 19, 2022 | Winter storm | 5,133 | 16% | 2.7 d | 43 h | 131k |
| Jul 7, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 4,725 | 15% | 2.1 d | 47 h | 96k |
| Nov 22, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,974 | 6% | 41 h | 41 h | 51k |
| Mar 2, 2018 | No storm report | 4,155 | 13% | 29 h | 20 h | 50k |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,246 | 10% | 37 h | 34 h | 41k |
| Aug 12, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,098 | 16% | 16 h | 10 h | 38k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,476 | 11% | 13 h | 2.8 h | 35k |
| Jul 24, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 4,440 | 14% | 26 h | 22 h | 34k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,257 | 10% | 20 h | 11 h | 33k |
| Jan 3, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,686 | 5% | 26 h | 14 h | 28k |
| Oct 30, 2024 | No storm report | 7,966 | 25% | 4.5 h | 4.0 h | 26k |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,383 | 8% | 18 h | 17 h | 25k |
| Sep 16, 2018 | No storm report | 6,260 | 20% | 5.8 h | 5.0 h | 25k |
| Jul 25, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 2,297 | 7% | 25 h | 24 h | 24k |
| Dec 27, 2015 | No storm report | 1,338 | 4% | 27 h | – | 24k |
| Mar 7, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,902 | 6% | 29 h | 29 h | 23k |
| Dec 2, 2019 | Winter storm | 1,219 | 4% | 30 h | – | 22k |
| Apr 3, 2016 | No storm report | 3,263 | 10% | 14 h | 12 h | 21k |
| Apr 15, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,825 | 6% | 13 h | 12 h | 20k |
| Jul 6, 2021 | No storm report | 2,198 | 7% | 23 h | 22 h | 19k |
| Jul 20, 2023 | No storm report | 1,287 | 4% | 13 h | – | 16k |
| Aug 14, 2018 | Flooding | 1,692 | 5% | 24 h | 29 h | 16k |
| Nov 19, 2016 | No storm report | 7,711 | 24% | 6.2 h | 2.8 h | 16k |
| Aug 8, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,175 | 10% | 7.5 h | 2.8 h | 16k |
| Dec 19, 2025 | No storm report | 2,729 | 9% | 12 h | 6.0 h | 15k |
| Jan 8, 2015 | No storm report | 3,139 | 10% | 6.8 h | 5.0 h | 13k |
| Oct 23, 2025 | No storm report | 3,471 | 11% | 6.8 h | 8.0 h | 13k |
| Jun 8, 2020 | No storm report | 5,327 | 17% | 2.5 h | 1.0 h | 12k |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,927 | 9% | 18 h | 3.5 h | 12k |
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 Bradford from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 49%
- Thunderstorms 31%
- Winter storm 18%
- Flooding 1.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Bradford
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 |
| Sullivan County R E C, Inc | PA | 376 | – | 3.00 | – | 46k |
| Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (PA) | Cooperative | – | – | – | 22.4 | 18k |
| Claverack Rural Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 18.7 | 17k |
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
- Sullivan 25 h
- Susquehanna 23 h
- Wyoming 19 h
- Tioga, NY 11 h
- Bradford (this county) 7.7 h
- Tioga 7.3 h
- Chemung, NY 4.5 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 31,486 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 →