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2016 Carbon County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Carbon County, PA went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1180th 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 Carbon 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 25, 2016 00:45 | February 26, 2016 04:15 | 1d 3h | 3,516 | 26K |
| 2 | December 20, 2016 20:45 | December 20, 2016 22:30 | 1h 45m | 2,929 | 5,126 |
| 3 | April 3, 2016 08:30 | April 4, 2016 15:30 | 1d 7h | 2,453 | 17K |
| 4 | December 19, 2016 16:15 | December 19, 2016 18:45 | 2h 30m | 2,139 | 546 |
| 5 | September 1, 2016 10:00 | September 1, 2016 10:30 | 30m | 2,005 | 502 |
| 6 | January 19, 2016 16:15 | January 19, 2016 17:00 | 45m | 1,466 | 684 |
| 7 | November 21, 2016 18:45 | November 21, 2016 19:00 | 15m | 1,423 | 356 |
| 8 | April 4, 2016 18:15 | April 5, 2016 05:30 | 11h 15m | 1,009 | 1,060 |
| 9 | March 2, 2016 13:00 | March 2, 2016 14:30 | 1h 30m | 888 | 486 |
| 10 | December 18, 2016 14:15 | December 18, 2016 16:00 | 1h 45m | 844 | 1,465 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 36 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Carbon 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 |
| Borough of Lehighton - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Weatherly - (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 ÷ 32,206 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. Carbon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carbon 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/carbon-county