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2016 Lancaster County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lancaster County, PA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 312K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1339th 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 Lancaster 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 16, 2016 14:00 | August 17, 2016 08:30 | 18h 30m | 8,130 | 23K |
| 2 | May 19, 2016 04:15 | May 19, 2016 05:15 | 1h | 4,908 | 1,267 |
| 3 | July 23, 2016 07:30 | July 25, 2016 04:30 | 1d 21h | 3,984 | 18K |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 02:15 | April 4, 2016 21:45 | 1d 19h | 2,790 | 26K |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 21:30 | February 26, 2016 07:30 | 1d 10h | 2,778 | 23K |
| 6 | May 29, 2016 16:00 | May 29, 2016 22:15 | 6h 15m | 2,722 | 7,142 |
| 7 | June 7, 2016 19:00 | June 8, 2016 09:30 | 14h 30m | 2,693 | 4,423 |
| 8 | June 8, 2016 10:15 | June 9, 2016 12:45 | 1d 2h | 2,681 | 9,030 |
| 9 | April 5, 2016 15:30 | April 5, 2016 21:15 | 5h 45m | 2,593 | 2,480 |
| 10 | September 28, 2016 13:15 | October 1, 2016 05:15 | 2d 16h | 2,583 | 4,281 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 180 reached 100+ customers, 49 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 Lancaster 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 |
| Borough of Ephrata - (PA) | 2016 | 68 min | 0.70 | - | - |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 156,892 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county