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2015 Lehigh County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Lehigh County, PA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 275K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 1598th 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 Lehigh 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 | February 8, 2015 01:30 | February 8, 2015 05:15 | 3h 45m | 9,411 | 14K |
| 2 | October 14, 2015 14:45 | October 14, 2015 19:30 | 4h 45m | 8,390 | 2,123 |
| 3 | October 31, 2015 23:30 | November 1, 2015 04:00 | 4h 30m | 6,387 | 8,401 |
| 4 | June 30, 2015 18:15 | July 2, 2015 06:30 | 1d 12h | 5,502 | 44K |
| 5 | March 25, 2015 04:45 | March 25, 2015 05:45 | 1h | 4,792 | 1,558 |
| 6 | September 24, 2015 12:15 | September 24, 2015 18:00 | 5h 45m | 3,081 | 4,114 |
| 7 | November 16, 2015 12:00 | November 16, 2015 22:45 | 10h 45m | 3,038 | 1,078 |
| 8 | November 12, 2015 18:00 | November 13, 2015 03:30 | 9h 30m | 2,981 | 1,252 |
| 9 | April 20, 2015 09:45 | April 20, 2015 16:30 | 6h 45m | 2,979 | 1,795 |
| 10 | June 8, 2015 12:30 | June 8, 2015 16:00 | 3h 30m | 2,844 | 2,133 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 129 reached 100+ customers, 40 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 Lehigh 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 212,008 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. Lehigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lehigh 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/lehigh-county