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2015 Dauphin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Dauphin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 209K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 1661st 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 Dauphin 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 | June 14, 2015 22:00 | June 15, 2015 19:15 | 21h 15m | 7,874 | 17K |
| 2 | December 9, 2015 21:15 | December 10, 2015 01:45 | 4h 30m | 4,342 | 6,182 |
| 3 | October 9, 2015 11:45 | October 9, 2015 13:45 | 2h | 3,440 | 869 |
| 4 | May 31, 2015 21:45 | June 2, 2015 21:30 | 1d 23h | 3,248 | 25K |
| 5 | March 3, 2015 10:00 | March 3, 2015 17:00 | 7h | 3,227 | 7,356 |
| 6 | August 12, 2015 17:00 | August 12, 2015 18:45 | 1h 45m | 3,104 | 783 |
| 7 | March 15, 2015 13:00 | March 16, 2015 00:45 | 11h 45m | 2,914 | 3,512 |
| 8 | May 31, 2015 10:45 | May 31, 2015 12:00 | 1h 15m | 2,592 | 1,707 |
| 9 | October 15, 2015 15:00 | October 15, 2015 15:30 | 30m | 2,566 | 643 |
| 10 | May 10, 2015 21:30 | May 11, 2015 02:45 | 5h 15m | 2,460 | 5,269 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 121 reached 100+ customers, 39 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 Dauphin 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 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2015 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Middletown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Royalton - (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 ÷ 176,757 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. Dauphin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dauphin 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/dauphin-county