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2016 Centre County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Centre County, PA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 136K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1583rd 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 Centre 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 | August 13, 2016 18:00 | August 14, 2016 05:15 | 11h 15m | 3,547 | 5,507 |
| 2 | March 19, 2016 13:45 | March 19, 2016 18:45 | 5h | 2,212 | 7,480 |
| 3 | July 25, 2016 18:15 | July 26, 2016 15:00 | 20h 45m | 2,148 | 6,899 |
| 4 | May 8, 2016 21:15 | May 8, 2016 23:00 | 1h 45m | 2,034 | 1,528 |
| 5 | August 21, 2016 02:45 | August 21, 2016 06:15 | 3h 30m | 1,845 | 5,330 |
| 6 | January 10, 2016 17:00 | January 11, 2016 20:30 | 1d 3h | 1,835 | 5,163 |
| 7 | March 28, 2016 11:30 | March 29, 2016 23:30 | 1d 12h | 1,691 | 7,620 |
| 8 | July 22, 2016 21:00 | July 23, 2016 07:30 | 10h 30m | 1,470 | 6,198 |
| 9 | August 10, 2016 12:45 | August 11, 2016 14:30 | 1d 1h | 1,466 | 3,606 |
| 10 | March 2, 2016 07:00 | March 2, 2016 21:30 | 14h 30m | 1,464 | 560 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 103 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Centre 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric 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 ÷ 96,428 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. Centre County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Centre 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/centre-county