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2016 Lackawanna County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lackawanna County, PA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1685th 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 Lackawanna 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 24, 2016 17:45 | August 25, 2016 06:30 | 12h 45m | 3,392 | 5,360 |
| 2 | March 22, 2016 19:30 | March 23, 2016 00:45 | 5h 15m | 3,169 | 3,369 |
| 3 | July 12, 2016 12:15 | July 12, 2016 15:15 | 3h | 3,106 | 805 |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 21:45 | February 25, 2016 23:45 | 1d 2h | 2,719 | 5,777 |
| 5 | June 4, 2016 10:45 | June 4, 2016 13:45 | 3h | 2,632 | 3,953 |
| 6 | September 11, 2016 10:00 | September 12, 2016 03:30 | 17h 30m | 2,452 | 3,015 |
| 7 | August 12, 2016 00:15 | August 12, 2016 12:15 | 12h | 2,441 | 8,283 |
| 8 | July 25, 2016 22:00 | July 25, 2016 23:30 | 1h 30m | 2,318 | 1,684 |
| 9 | May 20, 2016 16:00 | May 20, 2016 17:00 | 1h | 2,181 | 1,037 |
| 10 | February 14, 2016 09:15 | February 14, 2016 13:15 | 4h | 2,179 | 3,967 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 89 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Lackawanna 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 |
| Claverack Rural Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Blakely - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Olyphant - (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 ÷ 119,979 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. Lackawanna County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lackawanna 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/lackawanna-county