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2016 Potter County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Potter County, PA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 696th 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 Potter 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 1, 2016 15:15 | July 1, 2016 21:45 | 6h 30m | 828 | 1,282 |
| 2 | February 20, 2016 12:30 | February 20, 2016 20:30 | 8h | 789 | 3,552 |
| 3 | October 29, 2016 12:15 | October 29, 2016 19:30 | 7h 15m | 756 | 4,581 |
| 4 | March 2, 2016 10:45 | March 2, 2016 14:45 | 4h | 686 | 2,347 |
| 5 | September 19, 2016 12:45 | September 19, 2016 17:00 | 4h 15m | 650 | 608 |
| 6 | September 20, 2016 04:00 | September 20, 2016 04:45 | 45m | 650 | 421 |
| 7 | February 16, 2016 13:30 | February 17, 2016 19:00 | 1d 5h | 513 | 3,242 |
| 8 | March 28, 2016 20:30 | March 29, 2016 21:45 | 1d 1h | 417 | 5,497 |
| 9 | October 22, 2016 23:30 | October 23, 2016 05:45 | 6h 15m | 417 | 2,291 |
| 10 | October 23, 2016 11:15 | October 23, 2016 17:45 | 6h 30m | 416 | 2,394 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 25 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Potter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.56 | 2.9 hrs | 1.49 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.18 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (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 ÷ 9,352 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county