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2016 Franklin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Franklin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1789th 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 Franklin 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 1, 2016 18:00 | August 2, 2016 04:30 | 10h 30m | 2,538 | 4,101 |
| 2 | August 14, 2016 00:00 | August 15, 2016 03:00 | 1d 3h | 2,195 | 5,834 |
| 3 | April 16, 2016 21:30 | April 17, 2016 05:00 | 7h 30m | 2,065 | 3,906 |
| 4 | July 24, 2016 01:45 | July 24, 2016 17:45 | 16h | 1,549 | 1,169 |
| 5 | September 29, 2016 13:00 | September 29, 2016 21:30 | 8h 30m | 1,499 | 2,233 |
| 6 | March 30, 2016 01:45 | March 30, 2016 03:45 | 2h | 1,360 | 1,132 |
| 7 | June 15, 2016 10:45 | June 15, 2016 18:15 | 7h 30m | 1,346 | 1,674 |
| 8 | December 5, 2016 22:00 | December 6, 2016 02:30 | 4h 30m | 1,303 | 1,964 |
| 9 | May 25, 2016 13:00 | May 25, 2016 21:00 | 8h | 1,220 | 1,245 |
| 10 | March 3, 2016 08:15 | March 3, 2016 18:45 | 10h 30m | 1,157 | 2,608 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 69 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Franklin 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 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.18 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| Borough of Chambersburg | 2016 | 27 min | 1.92 | 12 min | 1.79 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mont Alto Borough | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 76,806 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county