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2016 Berks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Berks County, PA went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 547K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1153rd 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 Berks 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 | February 24, 2016 20:00 | February 26, 2016 11:15 | 1d 15h | 6,877 | 19K |
| 2 | September 20, 2016 10:30 | September 20, 2016 23:15 | 12h 45m | 4,997 | 7,125 |
| 3 | March 26, 2016 00:15 | March 26, 2016 01:15 | 1h | 4,728 | 4,728 |
| 4 | February 16, 2016 05:30 | February 17, 2016 07:45 | 1d 2h | 3,824 | 7,697 |
| 5 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | November 23, 2016 10:15 | 1d 20h | 3,816 | 15K |
| 6 | September 10, 2016 06:15 | September 11, 2016 04:00 | 21h 45m | 3,156 | 2,771 |
| 7 | September 21, 2016 09:30 | September 22, 2016 03:00 | 17h 30m | 2,991 | 3,147 |
| 8 | May 31, 2016 08:15 | June 2, 2016 00:00 | 1d 15h | 2,884 | 18K |
| 9 | December 15, 2016 13:30 | December 17, 2016 04:30 | 1d 15h | 2,752 | 8,510 |
| 10 | April 7, 2016 15:00 | April 9, 2016 03:00 | 1d 12h | 2,700 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 185 reached 100+ customers, 54 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 Berks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 0.80 | 71 min | 0.70 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | 1.48 | 2.5 hrs | 1.35 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Kutztown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 219,087 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. Berks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berks 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/berks-county