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2016 Northumberland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Northumberland County, PA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1388th 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 Northumberland 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 9, 2016 15:00 | October 9, 2016 17:45 | 2h 45m | 4,747 | 7,611 |
| 2 | August 26, 2016 05:45 | August 26, 2016 17:00 | 11h 15m | 4,097 | 2,105 |
| 3 | September 29, 2016 17:15 | September 29, 2016 19:00 | 1h 45m | 3,527 | 2,441 |
| 4 | December 15, 2016 11:00 | December 15, 2016 20:15 | 9h 15m | 2,465 | 1,070 |
| 5 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | November 22, 2016 17:00 | 1d 3h | 2,409 | 1,702 |
| 6 | August 16, 2016 18:30 | August 17, 2016 06:15 | 11h 45m | 1,836 | 5,917 |
| 7 | June 10, 2016 12:45 | June 10, 2016 13:15 | 30m | 1,598 | 590 |
| 8 | April 3, 2016 07:30 | April 3, 2016 14:30 | 7h | 1,388 | 3,516 |
| 9 | December 29, 2016 06:30 | December 29, 2016 10:00 | 3h 30m | 1,256 | 2,656 |
| 10 | January 10, 2016 18:30 | January 11, 2016 17:00 | 22h 30m | 1,193 | 2,650 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 57 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Northumberland 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 |
| Citizens Electric Co - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Watsontown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 46,261 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. Northumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northumberland 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/northumberland-county