Power Outages in Philadelphia County, PA
No live outage feed is available for Philadelphia County, PA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 2.3 hours.
Philadelphia County, PA is served by local tracked utilities.
Philadelphia County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Tornado WatchEXTREME
- Flood WatchSEVERE
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
Philadelphia County has been under 25 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Tornado Watch on July 18, 2026.
- Air Quality Alert ×7
- Flood Watch ×4
- Flash Flood Warning ×4
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×4
- Heat Advisory ×2
- Extreme Heat Watch ×2
Hardest-hit cities in Philadelphia County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Philadelphiano active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Philadelphia County went about 2.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 43,823 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 43,823 customers out) · decade average 1.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 382 | 43,629 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 84 | 13,330 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 112 | 36,673 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 35 | 32,117 | 2.7 |
| 2019 | 16 | 22,450 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 38 | 43,823 | 2.7 |
| 2021 | 14 | 27,936 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 25 | 7,701 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 29 | 16,674 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 6,529 | 1.9 |
| 2025 | 9 | 20,798 | 2.3 |
Very High winter weather exposure · 1.8 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Philadelphia County: FAQ
- How often does Philadelphia County, PA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Philadelphia County, PA logged 9 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 2.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Philadelphia County, PA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 43,823 customers without power, beginning May 30, 2020 and lasting about 13d 7h.
- Is there a power outage in Philadelphia County, PA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Philadelphia County, PA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Philadelphia. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Philadelphia County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Philadelphia County (showing 40 of 49).
19102, 19103, 19104, 19106, 19107, 19108, 19109, 19111, 19112, 19114, 19115, 19116, 19118, 19119, 19120, 19121, 19122, 19123, 19124, 19125, 19126, 19127, 19128, 19129, 19130, 19131, 19132, 19133, 19134, 19135, 19136, 19137, 19138, 19139, 19140, 19141, 19142, 19143, 19144, 19145
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/42101 and /api/v1/counties/42101/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Pennsylvania customers).