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2016 Blair County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Blair County, PA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 148K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1289th 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 Blair 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 | April 17, 2016 22:30 | April 18, 2016 13:00 | 14h 30m | 13,514 | 22K |
| 2 | October 21, 2016 14:30 | October 22, 2016 05:00 | 14h 30m | 1,812 | 7,280 |
| 3 | September 1, 2016 00:45 | September 1, 2016 03:00 | 2h 15m | 1,796 | 903 |
| 4 | September 6, 2016 21:00 | September 6, 2016 23:00 | 2h | 1,700 | 432 |
| 5 | May 15, 2016 17:45 | June 3, 2016 07:30 | 18d 13h | 1,495 | 12K |
| 6 | March 28, 2016 16:00 | March 29, 2016 08:30 | 16h 30m | 1,485 | 11K |
| 7 | July 14, 2016 19:30 | July 15, 2016 07:30 | 12h | 1,315 | 2,481 |
| 8 | July 14, 2016 16:30 | July 14, 2016 17:45 | 1h 15m | 1,184 | 897 |
| 9 | November 29, 2016 08:15 | November 29, 2016 12:15 | 4h | 1,070 | 3,499 |
| 10 | December 17, 2016 17:15 | December 17, 2016 19:45 | 2h 30m | 1,068 | 2,138 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 70 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Blair 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 69,598 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. Blair County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blair 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/blair-county