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2016 Somerset County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Somerset County, PA went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1143rd 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 Somerset 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 | August 10, 2016 04:00 | August 10, 2016 07:00 | 3h | 4,435 | 8,186 |
| 2 | April 3, 2016 00:15 | April 4, 2016 04:00 | 1d 3h | 3,684 | 11K |
| 3 | December 15, 2016 10:15 | December 15, 2016 13:30 | 3h 15m | 2,092 | 3,379 |
| 4 | April 19, 2016 12:45 | April 20, 2016 01:15 | 12h 30m | 2,035 | 2,218 |
| 5 | May 31, 2016 14:45 | May 31, 2016 23:45 | 9h | 1,780 | 518 |
| 6 | June 21, 2016 08:45 | June 21, 2016 09:00 | 15m | 1,712 | 428 |
| 7 | March 4, 2016 18:00 | March 4, 2016 18:30 | 30m | 1,600 | 800 |
| 8 | October 24, 2016 04:00 | October 24, 2016 21:00 | 17h | 1,566 | 2,399 |
| 9 | October 4, 2016 12:30 | October 4, 2016 14:45 | 2h 15m | 1,261 | 638 |
| 10 | August 3, 2016 20:45 | August 3, 2016 23:30 | 2h 45m | 1,179 | 2,360 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 64 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 Somerset 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Berlin - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hooversville Boro Elec Lgt 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 ÷ 34,025 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county