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2016 Luzerne County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Luzerne County, PA went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 123K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1901st 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 Luzerne 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 | June 7, 2016 13:00 | June 7, 2016 14:15 | 1h 15m | 9,765 | 2,464 |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 21:30 | February 26, 2016 09:30 | 1d 12h | 3,402 | 27K |
| 3 | March 22, 2016 20:15 | March 22, 2016 22:30 | 2h 15m | 3,391 | 1,018 |
| 4 | March 2, 2016 05:15 | March 2, 2016 09:15 | 4h | 2,827 | 787 |
| 5 | May 21, 2016 20:15 | May 22, 2016 04:45 | 8h 30m | 2,645 | 2,294 |
| 6 | January 9, 2016 06:30 | January 9, 2016 08:30 | 2h | 2,438 | 848 |
| 7 | March 24, 2016 20:30 | March 25, 2016 11:45 | 15h 15m | 2,262 | 2,605 |
| 8 | May 3, 2016 18:30 | May 3, 2016 23:45 | 5h 15m | 2,006 | 1,902 |
| 9 | April 3, 2016 06:15 | April 5, 2016 02:30 | 1d 20h | 1,835 | 4,031 |
| 10 | June 13, 2016 06:00 | June 13, 2016 13:30 | 7h 30m | 1,832 | 2,851 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 90 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Luzerne 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 |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | 2016 | 78 min | 0.63 | 78 min | 0.63 |
| Claverack 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 ÷ 164,504 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. Luzerne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luzerne 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/luzerne-county