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2016 Westmoreland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Westmoreland County, PA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 504K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1089th 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 Westmoreland 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 16, 2016 11:00 | August 18, 2016 04:00 | 1d 17h | 6,960 | 41K |
| 2 | August 1, 2016 12:45 | August 2, 2016 11:00 | 22h 15m | 4,160 | 4,034 |
| 3 | July 23, 2016 20:00 | July 25, 2016 10:00 | 1d 14h | 4,013 | 15K |
| 4 | June 11, 2016 10:15 | June 13, 2016 22:30 | 2d 12h | 3,778 | 14K |
| 5 | April 14, 2016 21:15 | April 16, 2016 03:45 | 1d 6h | 3,310 | 8,642 |
| 6 | October 24, 2016 00:30 | October 25, 2016 02:00 | 1d 1h | 2,941 | 1,259 |
| 7 | March 10, 2016 20:45 | March 11, 2016 14:45 | 18h | 2,857 | 4,775 |
| 8 | November 19, 2016 13:15 | November 20, 2016 07:30 | 18h 15m | 2,693 | 12K |
| 9 | December 17, 2016 09:15 | December 18, 2016 23:15 | 1d 14h | 2,688 | 15K |
| 10 | September 8, 2016 04:15 | September 8, 2016 14:00 | 9h 45m | 2,565 | 5,405 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 199 reached 100+ customers, 54 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 Westmoreland 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duquesne Light 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 ÷ 188,408 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. Westmoreland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Westmoreland 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/westmoreland-county