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2016 Montgomery County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Montgomery County, PA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 703rd 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 Montgomery 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 | May 29, 2016 15:30 | June 7, 2016 05:15 | 8d 13h | 14,319 | 48K |
| 2 | June 7, 2016 12:45 | June 20, 2016 23:00 | 13d 10h | 12,848 | 110K |
| 3 | April 2, 2016 12:15 | April 7, 2016 04:30 | 4d 16h | 11,254 | 104K |
| 4 | October 13, 2016 12:45 | October 14, 2016 00:30 | 11h 45m | 9,938 | 3,857 |
| 5 | July 21, 2016 08:15 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 12d 8h | 9,767 | 103K |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 13:15 | February 28, 2016 08:30 | 3d 19h | 9,526 | 72K |
| 7 | September 16, 2016 12:45 | September 17, 2016 21:15 | 1d 8h | 9,196 | 6,825 |
| 8 | October 7, 2016 13:15 | October 7, 2016 19:15 | 6h | 7,603 | 4,834 |
| 9 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | December 2, 2016 02:45 | 10d 12h | 7,324 | 26K |
| 10 | January 4, 2016 05:00 | January 6, 2016 00:00 | 1d 19h | 5,877 | 4,327 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 183 reached 100+ customers, 75 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Montgomery 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 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 76 min | 0.83 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Hatfield- (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Lansdale | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 224,080 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county