Power outage history
Fayette County Pennsylvania
6.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
31st most of 67 in Pennsylvania close to 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 Fayette'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 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Fayette, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2023 | Windstorm | 25,079 | 38% | 2.2 d | 28 h | 531k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 16,438 | 25% | 2.3 d | 2.1 d | 311k |
| Aug 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 11,291 | 17% | 2.4 d | 38 h | 239k |
| Feb 17, 2022 | Windstorm | 8,984 | 14% | 38 h | 34 h | 141k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 4,912 | 7% | 2.4 d | 2.7 d | 133k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Windstorm | 5,129 | 8% | 29 h | 19 h | 65k |
| Dec 28, 2015 | Windstorm | 6,793 | 10% | 19 h | 12 h | 61k |
| Sep 9, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 4,064 | 6% | 36 h | 33 h | 57k |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Windstorm | 4,610 | 7% | 24 h | 22 h | 53k |
| Apr 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,124 | 6% | 27 h | 37 h | 53k |
| Oct 20, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 6,624 | 10% | 22 h | 21 h | 47k |
| Feb 15, 2018 | Tornadoes | 3,480 | 5% | 21 h | 19 h | 35k |
| Sep 21, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,979 | 3% | 21 h | – | 28k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 2,263 | 3% | 18 h | – | 28k |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Winter storm | 3,208 | 5% | 8.2 h | – | 26k |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,027 | 5% | 19 h | – | 26k |
| May 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,462 | 4% | 18 h | – | 24k |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Tornadoes | 6,175 | 9% | 9.2 h | 8.0 h | 24k |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,751 | 4% | 16 h | – | 23k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | No storm report | 3,241 | 5% | 10 h | – | 21k |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 3,912 | 6% | 11 h | 5.0 h | 21k |
| Feb 12, 2017 | No storm report | 5,147 | 8% | 10 h | 11 h | 20k |
| Nov 20, 2025 | No storm report | 3,193 | 5% | 8.2 h | – | 20k |
| Dec 6, 2015 | No storm report | 2,731 | 4% | 7.2 h | – | 19k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,608 | 4% | 11 h | – | 18k |
| Oct 5, 2025 | No storm report | 3,211 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 18k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,451 | 7% | 7.5 h | 5.0 h | 18k |
| Jan 10, 2016 | No storm report | 4,289 | 7% | 6.5 h | 1.8 h | 15k |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,046 | 5% | 14 h | – | 15k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,182 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 13k |
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 Fayette from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Windstorm 38%
- Thunderstorms 35%
- No storm on record 22%
- Winter storm 2.1%
- Tornadoes 1.4%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Fayette
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 |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.4 | 12k |
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
- Garrett, MD 13 h
- Greene 12 h
- Preston, WV 7.8 h
- Washington 7.5 h
- Fayette (this county) 6.8 h
- Westmoreland 6.1 h
- Monongalia, WV 6.0 h
- Somerset 4.3 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 66,012 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 →