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2015 Northampton County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Northampton County, PA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 306K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 1284th 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 Northampton 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 | June 30, 2015 04:30 | July 2, 2015 18:15 | 2d 13h | 9,280 | 61K |
| 2 | March 29, 2015 13:15 | March 29, 2015 16:30 | 3h 15m | 9,118 | 16K |
| 3 | February 8, 2015 01:30 | February 8, 2015 09:45 | 8h 15m | 5,715 | 5,398 |
| 4 | January 5, 2015 04:45 | January 5, 2015 23:30 | 18h 45m | 5,562 | 9,152 |
| 5 | November 1, 2015 00:30 | November 1, 2015 02:45 | 2h 15m | 4,960 | 1,297 |
| 6 | June 2, 2015 20:00 | June 3, 2015 19:00 | 23h | 4,956 | 8,951 |
| 7 | May 31, 2015 14:15 | June 1, 2015 23:45 | 1d 9h | 4,087 | 5,982 |
| 8 | May 26, 2015 13:15 | May 26, 2015 15:15 | 2h | 3,738 | 938 |
| 9 | December 6, 2015 09:00 | December 6, 2015 12:45 | 3h 45m | 3,115 | 8,112 |
| 10 | January 12, 2015 13:15 | January 13, 2015 03:00 | 13h 45m | 2,740 | 5,966 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 125 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Northampton 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 ÷ 161,848 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county