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2016 Washington County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Washington County, PA went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 412K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 855th 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 Washington 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 6, 2016 18:45 | July 8, 2016 01:15 | 1d 6h | 5,021 | 9,241 |
| 2 | March 1, 2016 19:15 | March 3, 2016 02:00 | 1d 6h | 4,880 | 26K |
| 3 | October 23, 2016 11:45 | October 24, 2016 23:30 | 1d 11h | 4,858 | 13K |
| 4 | June 15, 2016 21:30 | June 18, 2016 10:00 | 2d 12h | 4,132 | 39K |
| 5 | August 16, 2016 12:00 | August 18, 2016 11:30 | 1d 23h | 3,062 | 16K |
| 6 | June 22, 2016 02:45 | June 22, 2016 22:30 | 19h 45m | 3,061 | 3,596 |
| 7 | September 1, 2016 10:30 | September 1, 2016 19:00 | 8h 30m | 2,881 | 1,014 |
| 8 | July 23, 2016 16:45 | July 27, 2016 03:00 | 3d 10h | 2,812 | 16K |
| 9 | August 28, 2016 12:00 | August 30, 2016 17:45 | 2d 5h | 2,749 | 18K |
| 10 | May 17, 2016 12:30 | May 17, 2016 16:15 | 3h 45m | 2,594 | 2,337 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 136 reached 100+ customers, 45 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.18 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric 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 ÷ 113,196 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county