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2015 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 260K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 708th 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 Fayette 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 | December 28, 2015 19:15 | December 31, 2015 00:15 | 2d 5h | 6,793 | 66K |
| 2 | June 8, 2015 18:45 | June 9, 2015 21:15 | 1d 2h | 3,433 | 8,385 |
| 3 | April 20, 2015 00:15 | April 20, 2015 15:15 | 15h | 3,035 | 7,099 |
| 4 | June 5, 2015 06:00 | June 5, 2015 10:15 | 4h 15m | 2,765 | 7,820 |
| 5 | December 6, 2015 15:30 | December 7, 2015 01:15 | 9h 45m | 2,731 | 20K |
| 6 | January 10, 2015 13:30 | January 11, 2015 03:00 | 13h 30m | 2,721 | 9,380 |
| 7 | July 16, 2015 17:30 | July 16, 2015 21:30 | 4h | 2,713 | 3,393 |
| 8 | April 20, 2015 17:30 | April 21, 2015 10:00 | 16h 30m | 2,534 | 5,592 |
| 9 | September 30, 2015 05:00 | September 30, 2015 10:00 | 5h | 2,431 | 1,992 |
| 10 | October 28, 2015 04:30 | October 30, 2015 00:00 | 1d 19h | 2,151 | 8,400 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 92 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Fayette 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county