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2015 Elk County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Elk County, PA went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 749th 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 Elk 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 | November 19, 2015 03:45 | November 19, 2015 13:45 | 10h | 1,759 | 6,810 |
| 2 | May 6, 2015 09:00 | May 6, 2015 14:30 | 5h 30m | 1,356 | 6,428 |
| 3 | June 23, 2015 11:00 | June 24, 2015 22:00 | 1d 11h | 1,083 | 2,131 |
| 4 | December 29, 2015 03:00 | December 30, 2015 20:00 | 1d 17h | 1,002 | 7,671 |
| 5 | August 4, 2015 00:30 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 17h 15m | 921 | 3,100 |
| 6 | April 6, 2015 01:00 | April 6, 2015 07:00 | 6h | 785 | 4,710 |
| 7 | August 20, 2015 19:45 | August 20, 2015 22:30 | 2h 45m | 779 | 978 |
| 8 | May 8, 2015 13:45 | May 8, 2015 14:45 | 1h | 527 | 527 |
| 9 | November 12, 2015 20:45 | November 14, 2015 07:15 | 1d 10h | 504 | 4,031 |
| 10 | July 20, 2015 00:30 | July 20, 2015 23:30 | 23h | 463 | 3,211 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 34 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Elk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2015 | 3.1 hrs | 1.25 | 2.8 hrs | 1.18 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (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 ÷ 16,981 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county