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2016 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 435K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1105th 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 Erie 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 | November 10, 2016 14:00 | November 11, 2016 01:15 | 11h 15m | 14,890 | 7,123 |
| 2 | July 30, 2016 10:15 | July 31, 2016 03:45 | 17h 30m | 13,838 | 17K |
| 3 | August 25, 2016 13:00 | August 27, 2016 00:15 | 1d 11h | 7,814 | 6,040 |
| 4 | September 8, 2016 12:45 | September 9, 2016 20:15 | 1d 7h | 7,382 | 19K |
| 5 | June 5, 2016 18:45 | June 7, 2016 04:45 | 1d 10h | 6,547 | 7,567 |
| 6 | July 6, 2016 16:45 | July 10, 2016 12:30 | 3d 19h | 5,546 | 13K |
| 7 | August 9, 2016 11:00 | August 11, 2016 14:30 | 2d 3h | 4,718 | 12K |
| 8 | December 2, 2016 13:00 | December 2, 2016 18:30 | 5h 30m | 4,493 | 4,986 |
| 9 | January 23, 2016 07:00 | January 23, 2016 22:30 | 15h 30m | 4,450 | 2,447 |
| 10 | October 27, 2016 07:30 | October 27, 2016 20:00 | 12h 30m | 4,295 | 7,574 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 174 reached 100+ customers, 42 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Erie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.56 | 2.9 hrs | 1.49 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county