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2015 Carbon County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Carbon County, PA went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 1453rd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Carbon County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 21, 2015 00:45 | August 21, 2015 15:15 | 14h 30m | 2,290 | 3,930 |
| 2 | August 20, 2015 22:15 | August 20, 2015 22:45 | 30m | 2,168 | 1,084 |
| 3 | August 20, 2015 23:30 | August 20, 2015 23:45 | 15m | 2,168 | 542 |
| 4 | January 5, 2015 03:45 | January 5, 2015 19:15 | 15h 30m | 1,988 | 941 |
| 5 | June 22, 2015 23:45 | June 23, 2015 06:00 | 6h 15m | 1,954 | 2,511 |
| 6 | September 9, 2015 13:45 | September 9, 2015 15:00 | 1h 15m | 1,836 | 461 |
| 7 | July 22, 2015 19:30 | July 23, 2015 00:00 | 4h 30m | 1,681 | 7,539 |
| 8 | February 6, 2015 01:00 | February 6, 2015 02:30 | 1h 30m | 1,651 | 829 |
| 9 | September 9, 2015 21:00 | September 9, 2015 21:15 | 15m | 950 | 238 |
| 10 | September 10, 2015 22:00 | September 11, 2015 07:15 | 9h 15m | 937 | 1,056 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 37 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Carbon County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2015 | 86 min | 0.74 | 76 min | 0.67 |
| Borough of Lehighton - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Weatherly - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Pennsylvania's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 32,206 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Carbon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carbon County, PA annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/pennsylvania/carbon-county