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2017 Adams County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Adams County, PA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 135K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1116th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 20, 2017 06:45 | December 20, 2017 07:30 | 45m | 4,345 | 1,170 |
| 2 | September 5, 2017 20:00 | September 8, 2017 01:30 | 2d 5h | 3,571 | 35K |
| 3 | November 19, 2017 10:00 | November 20, 2017 01:00 | 15h | 1,860 | 4,069 |
| 4 | October 30, 2017 02:30 | November 1, 2017 02:45 | 2d | 1,737 | 15K |
| 5 | June 19, 2017 17:30 | June 22, 2017 03:00 | 2d 9h | 1,639 | 11K |
| 6 | June 30, 2017 18:30 | July 1, 2017 07:15 | 12h 45m | 1,573 | 7,047 |
| 7 | May 8, 2017 09:00 | May 8, 2017 10:00 | 1h | 1,538 | 1,538 |
| 8 | April 24, 2017 19:00 | April 24, 2017 20:15 | 1h 15m | 1,494 | 1,495 |
| 9 | March 10, 2017 16:30 | March 10, 2017 18:45 | 2h 15m | 1,473 | 1,893 |
| 10 | May 5, 2017 10:45 | May 5, 2017 14:00 | 3h 15m | 974 | 1,225 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 62 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2017 | 3.7 hrs | 1.51 | 2.7 hrs | 1.29 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,102 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, PA annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/pennsylvania/adams-county