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2016 Bedford County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bedford County, PA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1303rd 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 Bedford 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 28, 2016 17:00 | July 28, 2016 20:45 | 3h 45m | 2,423 | 4,298 |
| 2 | June 8, 2016 13:00 | June 8, 2016 23:00 | 10h | 1,788 | 6,570 |
| 3 | January 19, 2016 10:45 | January 19, 2016 16:30 | 5h 45m | 1,478 | 1,148 |
| 4 | January 31, 2016 15:30 | January 31, 2016 17:30 | 2h | 1,073 | 1,610 |
| 5 | December 20, 2016 21:45 | December 21, 2016 07:00 | 9h 15m | 941 | 2,669 |
| 6 | November 12, 2016 02:15 | November 12, 2016 09:15 | 7h | 857 | 2,619 |
| 7 | October 27, 2016 11:15 | October 27, 2016 19:45 | 8h 30m | 850 | 2,326 |
| 8 | October 1, 2016 09:15 | October 1, 2016 10:45 | 1h 30m | 832 | 1,219 |
| 9 | February 26, 2016 03:30 | February 26, 2016 11:45 | 8h 15m | 735 | 1,389 |
| 10 | February 26, 2016 16:30 | February 26, 2016 18:00 | 1h 30m | 722 | 362 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 28 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Bedford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.56 | 2.9 hrs | 1.49 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.18 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Enterprise R E C, 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 ÷ 26,999 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county