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2015 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 673K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 678th 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 Erie 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 | April 21, 2015 20:00 | April 23, 2015 00:45 | 1d 4h | 12,673 | 36K |
| 2 | December 28, 2015 22:00 | December 31, 2015 00:15 | 2d 2h | 11,054 | 130K |
| 3 | January 18, 2015 13:15 | January 18, 2015 21:00 | 7h 45m | 9,740 | 6,343 |
| 4 | October 28, 2015 08:15 | October 30, 2015 07:30 | 1d 23h | 9,450 | 72K |
| 5 | April 21, 2015 13:15 | April 21, 2015 18:15 | 5h | 7,638 | 3,881 |
| 6 | July 23, 2015 12:45 | July 24, 2015 01:00 | 12h 15m | 6,386 | 6,161 |
| 7 | August 11, 2015 07:30 | August 11, 2015 22:00 | 14h 30m | 6,132 | 3,133 |
| 8 | February 16, 2015 05:45 | February 17, 2015 07:00 | 1d 1h | 5,956 | 35K |
| 9 | March 3, 2015 18:00 | March 5, 2015 04:30 | 1d 10h | 4,320 | 3,350 |
| 10 | July 14, 2015 00:15 | July 14, 2015 08:30 | 8h 15m | 3,275 | 8,690 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 169 reached 100+ customers, 48 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Erie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2015 | 3.4 hrs | 1.46 | 2.8 hrs | 1.31 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county