County annual report · FIPS 42043
2016 Dauphin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dauphin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 201K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1707th 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 Dauphin 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 | June 28, 2016 20:00 | June 29, 2016 17:15 | 21h 15m | 7,680 | 21K |
| 2 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | November 22, 2016 21:45 | 1d 7h | 6,272 | 7,523 |
| 3 | September 19, 2016 14:00 | September 19, 2016 23:15 | 9h 15m | 5,206 | 5,791 |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 02:15 | April 5, 2016 02:00 | 1d 23h | 3,148 | 23K |
| 5 | December 28, 2016 21:45 | December 29, 2016 09:00 | 11h 15m | 2,972 | 13K |
| 6 | December 1, 2016 07:00 | December 1, 2016 21:30 | 14h 30m | 2,651 | 3,560 |
| 7 | April 27, 2016 20:30 | April 28, 2016 15:15 | 18h 45m | 2,572 | 1,561 |
| 8 | September 7, 2016 18:15 | September 8, 2016 08:30 | 14h 15m | 2,569 | 2,596 |
| 9 | September 24, 2016 15:45 | September 24, 2016 16:45 | 1h | 2,442 | 981 |
| 10 | September 4, 2016 01:30 | September 4, 2016 03:00 | 1h 30m | 2,268 | 1,324 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 127 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Dauphin 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 Middletown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Royalton - (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 ÷ 176,757 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. Dauphin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dauphin 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/dauphin-county