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2016 Northampton County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Northampton County, PA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 431K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1096th 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 Northampton 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 | April 7, 2016 17:30 | April 9, 2016 04:30 | 1d 11h | 18,264 | 35K |
| 2 | July 25, 2016 19:45 | July 28, 2016 04:15 | 2d 8h | 11,437 | 48K |
| 3 | May 3, 2016 02:30 | May 3, 2016 14:15 | 11h 45m | 5,753 | 18K |
| 4 | January 19, 2016 15:15 | January 20, 2016 03:00 | 11h 45m | 5,633 | 4,620 |
| 5 | March 18, 2016 13:45 | March 19, 2016 06:15 | 16h 30m | 5,523 | 1,686 |
| 6 | July 18, 2016 14:00 | July 19, 2016 07:00 | 17h | 4,675 | 14K |
| 7 | January 16, 2016 17:30 | January 17, 2016 01:15 | 7h 45m | 4,198 | 7,507 |
| 8 | February 14, 2016 06:15 | February 14, 2016 22:15 | 16h | 4,187 | 14K |
| 9 | September 29, 2016 12:15 | September 29, 2016 20:45 | 8h 30m | 4,031 | 8,809 |
| 10 | September 28, 2016 01:45 | September 28, 2016 05:00 | 3h 15m | 3,963 | 3,920 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 152 reached 100+ customers, 50 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Northampton 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 ÷ 161,848 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county