Power Out Map
– 0% of Forest out 0 customers out in Pennsylvania

Power outage history

Forest County Pennsylvania

36hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

2nd most of 67 in Pennsylvania 5.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Nov 15, 2020 100% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 36h / yr State average 6.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 16.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.2days Apr 1, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 38% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 2.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,447 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Forest's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Forest, hours without power per customer

ForestUS median countyPennsylvania average
0 20 40 60 80 13 ’15 15 ’16 29 ’17 25 ’18 16 ’19 66 ’20 34 ’21 33 ’22 59 ’23 25 ’24 31 ’25 US 6.6 PA 6.0

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
Nov 15, 2020 Thunderstorms 3,447 100% 3.1 d 2.9 d 122k
Apr 1, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,447 100% 3.2 d 2.8 d 118k
May 1, 2017 Tornadoes 2,330 68% 2.2 d 25 h 41k
Mar 25, 2023 No storm report 2,822 82% 37 h 13 h 25k
Dec 11, 2021 No storm report 1,440 42% 32 h 22 h 18k
Dec 2, 2020 Winter storm 1,885 55% 16 h 3.2 h 16k
Dec 28, 2025 No storm report 2,127 62% 14 h 7.2 h 15k
Mar 8, 2017 No storm report 1,029 30% 32 h 21 h 14k
Oct 31, 2019 No storm report 2,249 65% 23 h 11 h 13k
Aug 27, 2020 No storm report 306 9% 2.0 d 29 h 12k
Dec 29, 2024 No storm report 1,392 40% 30 h 14 h 12k
Mar 26, 2021 No storm report 2,043 59% 32 h 24 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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +24h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Forest from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 62%
  • Thunderstorms 33%
  • Winter storm 4.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Forest

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
United Electric Coop, Inc PA – – – 15.9 120k
Warren Electric Coop Inc PA – – – – 44k
Central Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 16.9 24k

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

Across Pennsylvania

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Pennsylvania counties →

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 3,447 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 →