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2016 Adams County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Adams County, PA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 164K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 687th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 14, 2016 00:15 | July 14, 2016 15:15 | 15h | 16,455 | 37K |
| 2 | April 3, 2016 01:45 | April 4, 2016 16:30 | 1d 14h | 5,120 | 28K |
| 3 | October 3, 2016 16:00 | October 3, 2016 16:45 | 45m | 4,557 | 2,149 |
| 4 | December 22, 2016 05:30 | December 22, 2016 12:15 | 6h 45m | 4,313 | 22K |
| 5 | April 27, 2016 14:30 | April 27, 2016 15:00 | 30m | 2,761 | 1,146 |
| 6 | June 5, 2016 03:45 | June 5, 2016 12:45 | 9h | 2,638 | 1,935 |
| 7 | November 14, 2016 14:15 | November 14, 2016 15:45 | 1h 30m | 2,544 | 658 |
| 8 | October 24, 2016 05:15 | October 24, 2016 05:45 | 30m | 2,120 | 938 |
| 9 | March 17, 2016 20:00 | March 18, 2016 01:15 | 5h 15m | 1,822 | 4,898 |
| 10 | January 10, 2016 21:45 | January 11, 2016 19:30 | 21h 45m | 1,794 | 2,437 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 57 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | 1.48 | 2.5 hrs | 1.35 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,102 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, PA annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/pennsylvania/adams-county