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2015 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 1006th 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 Columbia 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 | October 28, 2015 13:30 | October 29, 2015 09:00 | 19h 30m | 21,274 | 48K |
| 2 | December 17, 2015 14:15 | December 17, 2015 16:30 | 2h 15m | 1,907 | 479 |
| 3 | September 28, 2015 17:30 | September 28, 2015 17:45 | 15m | 1,769 | 442 |
| 4 | June 27, 2015 15:15 | June 28, 2015 16:00 | 1d | 1,729 | 3,704 |
| 5 | May 27, 2015 17:15 | May 27, 2015 20:30 | 3h 15m | 1,176 | 588 |
| 6 | May 25, 2015 19:45 | May 25, 2015 22:30 | 2h 45m | 1,118 | 282 |
| 7 | July 2, 2015 11:00 | July 2, 2015 12:30 | 1h 30m | 1,116 | 1,674 |
| 8 | April 20, 2015 09:15 | April 20, 2015 18:30 | 9h 15m | 1,067 | 1,105 |
| 9 | August 18, 2015 21:45 | August 19, 2015 11:15 | 13h 30m | 1,018 | 3,788 |
| 10 | May 31, 2015 20:15 | June 1, 2015 03:45 | 7h 30m | 944 | 1,064 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 43 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Columbia 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 Catawissa | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,125 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county