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2016 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 257K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 803rd 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 Fayette 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 | October 20, 2016 22:30 | October 23, 2016 21:45 | 2d 23h | 6,624 | 50K |
| 2 | June 16, 2016 01:30 | June 18, 2016 08:45 | 2d 7h | 6,175 | 31K |
| 3 | January 10, 2016 07:45 | January 11, 2016 14:15 | 1d 6h | 4,289 | 16K |
| 4 | July 25, 2016 20:15 | July 26, 2016 16:00 | 19h 45m | 2,933 | 8,665 |
| 5 | June 9, 2016 12:30 | June 9, 2016 20:15 | 7h 45m | 2,621 | 2,206 |
| 6 | May 7, 2016 15:45 | May 7, 2016 23:45 | 8h | 2,590 | 8,801 |
| 7 | October 18, 2016 12:45 | October 19, 2016 02:00 | 13h 15m | 2,511 | 2,801 |
| 8 | December 17, 2016 09:15 | December 19, 2016 05:30 | 1d 20h | 2,299 | 16K |
| 9 | June 28, 2016 12:30 | June 28, 2016 23:15 | 10h 45m | 2,031 | 3,080 |
| 10 | May 31, 2016 22:15 | May 31, 2016 22:30 | 15m | 1,929 | 482 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 84 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Fayette 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec 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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county