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2016 Lehigh County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lehigh County, PA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 296K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1589th 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 Lehigh 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 13, 2016 15:45 | October 13, 2016 18:15 | 2h 30m | 12,630 | 7,596 |
| 2 | July 18, 2016 18:45 | July 20, 2016 22:30 | 2d 3h | 9,129 | 32K |
| 3 | December 15, 2016 13:30 | December 16, 2016 08:00 | 18h 30m | 9,039 | 5,852 |
| 4 | December 10, 2016 16:15 | December 10, 2016 22:15 | 6h | 6,953 | 6,378 |
| 5 | October 12, 2016 03:45 | October 12, 2016 04:00 | 15m | 6,880 | 1,720 |
| 6 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 15, 2016 06:15 | 2d 9h | 6,060 | 31K |
| 7 | September 9, 2016 13:00 | September 9, 2016 15:45 | 2h 45m | 3,811 | 979 |
| 8 | April 3, 2016 08:30 | April 4, 2016 10:45 | 1d 2h | 3,426 | 17K |
| 9 | April 6, 2016 20:15 | April 6, 2016 22:15 | 2h | 3,178 | 1,737 |
| 10 | July 30, 2016 02:00 | July 30, 2016 16:30 | 14h 30m | 2,989 | 965 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 152 reached 100+ customers, 44 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Lehigh 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 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | 1.48 | 2.5 hrs | 1.35 |
| 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 ÷ 212,008 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. Lehigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lehigh 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/lehigh-county