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2017 Bedford County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bedford County, PA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1115th 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 Bedford 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 | September 5, 2017 17:00 | September 6, 2017 09:15 | 16h 15m | 2,141 | 3,008 |
| 2 | May 1, 2017 16:00 | May 1, 2017 17:00 | 1h | 2,073 | 669 |
| 3 | August 3, 2017 00:45 | August 3, 2017 13:00 | 12h 15m | 1,977 | 3,608 |
| 4 | October 27, 2017 14:30 | October 27, 2017 19:45 | 5h 15m | 1,497 | 394 |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 20:00 | May 5, 2017 03:00 | 3d 7h | 1,401 | 16K |
| 6 | March 26, 2017 11:30 | March 26, 2017 15:45 | 4h 15m | 1,385 | 5,712 |
| 7 | January 25, 2017 14:00 | January 25, 2017 15:30 | 1h 30m | 1,093 | 308 |
| 8 | February 9, 2017 08:15 | February 9, 2017 23:30 | 15h 15m | 1,063 | 3,656 |
| 9 | March 2, 2017 04:15 | March 3, 2017 06:45 | 1d 2h | 1,007 | 5,873 |
| 10 | February 26, 2017 02:30 | February 26, 2017 05:30 | 3h | 878 | 2,634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 63 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 Bedford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2017 | 6.5 hrs | 2.02 | 3.2 hrs | 1.59 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 1.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.15 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Enterprise R E C, 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 ÷ 26,999 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county