Power outage history
Greene County Pennsylvania
12hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
12th 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 Greene'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 17 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Greene, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 4,141 | 22% | 4.1 d | 2.4 d | 100k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 4,485 | 24% | 46 h | 36 h | 83k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,854 | 21% | 48 h | 30 h | 53k |
| Jun 23, 2017 | Tropical Storm Cindy | 4,573 | 25% | 28 h | 18 h | 41k |
| Feb 4, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,321 | 7% | 2.7 d | 2.5 d | 40k |
| Feb 17, 2022 | Windstorm | 4,185 | 23% | 28 h | 19 h | 38k |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Flooding | 3,597 | 19% | 30 h | 23 h | 37k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 7,383 | 40% | 21 h | 4.2 h | 36k |
| Feb 9, 2017 | No storm report | 2,598 | 14% | 30 h | 13 h | 30k |
| May 30, 2025 | No storm report | 1,431 | 8% | 2.1 d | 2.5 d | 29k |
| Jul 28, 2017 | Flooding | 1,770 | 10% | 36 h | 13 h | 26k |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,267 | 7% | 41 h | 45 h | 26k |
| Aug 25, 2023 | No storm report | 750 | 4% | 37 h | – | 24k |
| Apr 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 918 | 5% | 42 h | – | 23k |
| Dec 19, 2025 | No storm report | 2,347 | 13% | 32 h | 29 h | 22k |
| May 25, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,689 | 9% | 18 h | 17 h | 21k |
| Sep 21, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,263 | 12% | 7.5 h | 7.5 h | 17k |
| Mar 4, 2015 | Winter storm | 1,292 | 7% | 42 h | 21 h | 17k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 2,782 | 15% | 11 h | 4.5 h | 16k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 1,096 | 6% | 21 h | 5.0 h | 16k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,716 | 9% | 25 h | 21 h | 14k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | No storm report | 677 | 4% | 21 h | – | 13k |
| Feb 21, 2019 | No storm report | 2,123 | 11% | 6.0 h | 5.8 h | 12k |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Tornadoes | 2,509 | 14% | 26 h | 12 h | 12k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | No storm report | 3,416 | 18% | 13 h | 48 min | 11k |
| Mar 2, 2017 | No storm report | 1,670 | 9% | 11 h | 4.2 h | 11k |
| Jul 11, 2019 | Flooding | 1,152 | 6% | 18 h | 9.2 h | 11k |
| Jan 8, 2019 | No storm report | 908 | 5% | 14 h | – | 11k |
| May 2, 2017 | No storm report | 1,328 | 7% | 12 h | 11 h | 9.8k |
| Jun 21, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 913 | 5% | 19 h | – | 9.5k |
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 Greene from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 53%
- Thunderstorms 22%
- Windstorm 17%
- Winter storm 4.8%
- Flooding 2.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Greene
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 |
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
- Marshall, WV 24 h
- Wetzel, WV 14 h
- Greene (this county) 12 h
- Washington 7.5 h
- Fayette 6.8 h
- Monongalia, WV 6.0 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 18,544 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 →