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2016 Elk County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Elk County, PA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 906th 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 Elk 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 8, 2016 19:45 | August 8, 2016 23:30 | 3h 45m | 1,775 | 6,313 |
| 2 | August 15, 2016 00:30 | August 15, 2016 15:30 | 15h | 1,774 | 19K |
| 3 | September 6, 2016 20:15 | September 6, 2016 21:45 | 1h 30m | 1,038 | 1,153 |
| 4 | February 12, 2016 17:30 | February 12, 2016 19:45 | 2h 15m | 792 | 1,189 |
| 5 | June 5, 2016 18:00 | June 5, 2016 20:45 | 2h 45m | 790 | 1,979 |
| 6 | August 10, 2016 12:45 | August 11, 2016 02:00 | 13h 15m | 785 | 8,079 |
| 7 | September 18, 2016 15:45 | September 18, 2016 18:00 | 2h 15m | 663 | 1,160 |
| 8 | July 4, 2016 01:15 | July 4, 2016 02:45 | 1h 30m | 661 | 464 |
| 9 | July 6, 2016 13:15 | July 6, 2016 18:00 | 4h 45m | 597 | 585 |
| 10 | July 31, 2016 16:00 | July 31, 2016 21:45 | 5h 45m | 543 | 514 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 25 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Elk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.18 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (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 ÷ 16,981 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county