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2015 Luzerne County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Luzerne County, PA went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 1836th 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 Luzerne 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 24, 2015 15:15 | December 25, 2015 00:15 | 9h | 5,264 | 17K |
| 2 | June 27, 2015 20:45 | June 28, 2015 15:00 | 18h 15m | 4,965 | 27K |
| 3 | May 16, 2015 21:45 | May 17, 2015 21:15 | 23h 30m | 4,492 | 3,365 |
| 4 | April 3, 2015 21:15 | April 4, 2015 14:30 | 17h 15m | 3,058 | 9,455 |
| 5 | January 22, 2015 14:45 | January 22, 2015 16:00 | 1h 15m | 2,830 | 3,533 |
| 6 | December 27, 2015 10:00 | December 28, 2015 00:45 | 14h 45m | 2,438 | 1,456 |
| 7 | June 30, 2015 07:45 | June 30, 2015 08:45 | 1h | 2,437 | 1,838 |
| 8 | April 10, 2015 23:00 | April 11, 2015 04:00 | 5h | 2,107 | 4,170 |
| 9 | March 11, 2015 01:45 | March 11, 2015 10:15 | 8h 30m | 2,052 | 1,735 |
| 10 | May 31, 2015 23:00 | June 1, 2015 10:30 | 11h 30m | 2,005 | 1,607 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 66 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Luzerne 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 |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | 2015 | 41 min | 0.40 | 41 min | 0.40 |
| Claverack 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 ÷ 164,504 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. Luzerne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luzerne 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/luzerne-county