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2016 Philadelphia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Philadelphia County, PA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1484th 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 Philadelphia 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 | July 10, 2016 22:45 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 22d 17h | 13,330 | 155K |
| 2 | May 12, 2016 16:45 | June 18, 2016 06:15 | 36d 13h | 10,221 | 181K |
| 3 | April 18, 2016 14:00 | April 28, 2016 23:00 | 10d 9h | 8,714 | 56K |
| 4 | August 12, 2016 21:00 | September 5, 2016 08:15 | 23d 11h | 8,680 | 102K |
| 5 | September 27, 2016 12:45 | October 2, 2016 22:15 | 5d 9h | 7,410 | 30K |
| 6 | January 1, 2016 00:00 | January 25, 2016 18:00 | 24d 18h | 6,814 | 76K |
| 7 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | December 8, 2016 01:30 | 16d 11h | 4,315 | 103K |
| 8 | January 25, 2016 21:00 | March 12, 2016 02:00 | 46d 5h | 4,253 | 158K |
| 9 | December 10, 2016 01:30 | December 28, 2016 00:45 | 17d 23h | 4,183 | 40K |
| 10 | March 28, 2016 12:30 | April 16, 2016 12:00 | 18d 23h | 4,110 | 68K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 52 reached 100+ customers, 37 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 Philadelphia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PECO Energy Co | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 76 min | 0.83 |
| Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 802,812 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. Philadelphia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Philadelphia 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/philadelphia-county