County annual report · FIPS 42119
2016 Union County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Union County, PA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1671st 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 Union 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 1, 2016 11:15 | October 1, 2016 16:15 | 5h | 2,614 | 1,575 |
| 2 | August 15, 2016 17:45 | August 16, 2016 06:45 | 13h | 1,862 | 581 |
| 3 | July 28, 2016 19:15 | July 28, 2016 23:15 | 4h | 1,769 | 2,766 |
| 4 | August 9, 2016 03:15 | August 9, 2016 07:30 | 4h 15m | 1,767 | 1,839 |
| 5 | July 19, 2016 11:30 | July 19, 2016 22:00 | 10h 30m | 1,692 | 4,457 |
| 6 | July 20, 2016 15:45 | July 20, 2016 16:00 | 15m | 1,535 | 384 |
| 7 | December 20, 2016 17:30 | December 20, 2016 17:45 | 15m | 867 | 217 |
| 8 | October 1, 2016 17:15 | October 2, 2016 00:00 | 6h 45m | 763 | 644 |
| 9 | April 13, 2016 12:30 | April 14, 2016 11:15 | 22h 45m | 744 | 7,438 |
| 10 | April 14, 2016 12:30 | April 14, 2016 13:00 | 30m | 744 | 186 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 28 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Union 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 Mifflinburg - (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 ÷ 28,701 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county