Power outage history
Fulton County Pennsylvania
5.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
41st most of 67 in Pennsylvania 14% 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 Fulton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Fulton, 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 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,709 | 37% | 2.9 d | 42 h | 74k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 471 | 6% | 2.7 d | 2.1 d | 16k |
| Jul 21, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,312 | 18% | 20 h | 20 h | 16k |
| Aug 4, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,630 | 22% | 24 h | 19 h | 11k |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Windstorm | 600 | 8% | 36 h | 30 h | 9.0k |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Winter storm | 380 | 5% | 24 h | 5.8 h | 7.8k |
| Jan 14, 2024 | No storm report | 378 | 5% | 21 h | 17 h | 7.0k |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Hurricane Ida | 544 | 7% | 25 h | 23 h | 6.6k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | No storm report | 370 | 5% | 22 h | 17 h | 6.3k |
| May 17, 2025 | No storm report | 330 | 5% | 19 h | – | 5.1k |
| Jan 13, 2024 | No storm report | 727 | 10% | 7.0 h | 7.0 h | 4.9k |
| Dec 16, 2019 | No storm report | 591 | 8% | 16 h | 6.5 h | 4.8k |
| Feb 11, 2023 | No storm report | 2,096 | 29% | 2.2 h | 4.2 h | 4.7k |
| Apr 13, 2022 | No storm report | 717 | 10% | 12 h | 11 h | 4.5k |
| Jul 7, 2021 | No storm report | 2,554 | 35% | 3.0 h | 1.5 h | 4.3k |
| Dec 29, 2025 | No storm report | 409 | 6% | 14 h | 12 h | 4.3k |
| Aug 4, 2021 | No storm report | 2,094 | 29% | 2.0 h | 4.5 h | 4.2k |
| Jul 23, 2020 | No storm report | 1,412 | 19% | 2.0 h | 12 min | 2.8k |
| Nov 1, 2024 | No storm report | 819 | 11% | 3.0 h | 1.8 h | 2.5k |
| Jul 21, 2023 | No storm report | 194 | 3% | 13 h | – | 2.2k |
| Apr 6, 2023 | No storm report | 321 | 4% | 9.8 h | – | 2.2k |
| Dec 30, 2021 | No storm report | 2,030 | 28% | 1.0 h | 1.5 h | 2.0k |
| Jun 3, 2024 | No storm report | 293 | 4% | 7.0 h | – | 2.0k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 322 | 4% | 10 h | – | 2.0k |
| Sep 26, 2018 | No storm report | 620 | 9% | 3.5 h | 3.8 h | 1.9k |
| Jun 5, 2016 | No storm report | 1,108 | 15% | 3.0 h | 1.5 h | 1.9k |
| Jan 6, 2024 | Winter storm | 336 | 5% | 6.0 h | – | 1.8k |
| Aug 21, 2018 | No storm report | 1,403 | 19% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.8k |
| Aug 6, 2021 | No storm report | 381 | 5% | 7.5 h | 2.5 h | 1.8k |
| Sep 19, 2017 | No storm report | 262 | 4% | 6.5 h | – | 1.7k |
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 Fulton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 46%
- Thunderstorms 35%
- Windstorm 9.5%
- Winter storm 4.5%
- Tropical storm 4.2%
- Flooding 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Fulton
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 |
| New Enterprise R E C, Inc | PA | – | – | – | – | 37k |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.1 | 18k |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 16.8 | 8.8k |
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
- Allegany, MD 7.4 h
- Bedford 6.3 h
- Fulton (this county) 5.7 h
- Huntingdon 3.7 h
- Washington, MD 3.5 h
- Franklin 2.2 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 7,267 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 →