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2016 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1068th 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 Columbia 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 13:00 | July 28, 2016 16:45 | 3h 45m | 2,816 | 844 |
| 2 | July 25, 2016 22:00 | July 25, 2016 23:30 | 1h 30m | 2,082 | 1,798 |
| 3 | July 25, 2016 19:00 | July 25, 2016 20:45 | 1h 45m | 1,736 | 2,055 |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 23:00 | February 26, 2016 11:15 | 1d 12h | 1,646 | 11K |
| 5 | July 18, 2016 15:45 | July 19, 2016 00:15 | 8h 30m | 1,541 | 3,318 |
| 6 | February 29, 2016 17:15 | February 29, 2016 22:45 | 5h 30m | 1,536 | 436 |
| 7 | July 26, 2016 00:30 | July 27, 2016 07:30 | 1d 7h | 1,468 | 12K |
| 8 | June 30, 2016 16:15 | June 30, 2016 19:45 | 3h 30m | 1,432 | 1,234 |
| 9 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | November 22, 2016 05:30 | 15h 30m | 1,328 | 2,487 |
| 10 | April 30, 2016 15:15 | May 1, 2016 02:30 | 11h 15m | 1,234 | 3,314 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 58 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Columbia 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 Catawissa | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,125 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county