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2017 Berks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Berks County, PA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 676K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1311th 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 Berks 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 | February 25, 2017 11:30 | February 28, 2017 08:45 | 2d 21h | 14,016 | 102K |
| 2 | April 10, 2017 07:15 | April 10, 2017 23:15 | 16h | 6,138 | 17K |
| 3 | June 19, 2017 10:30 | June 23, 2017 14:45 | 4d 4h | 6,070 | 39K |
| 4 | April 15, 2017 12:00 | April 15, 2017 18:45 | 6h 45m | 5,992 | 3,671 |
| 5 | June 30, 2017 20:15 | July 4, 2017 03:15 | 3d 7h | 5,833 | 33K |
| 6 | March 14, 2017 11:15 | March 15, 2017 18:30 | 1d 7h | 5,347 | 7,098 |
| 7 | December 13, 2017 10:30 | December 14, 2017 11:15 | 1d | 4,379 | 1,484 |
| 8 | February 13, 2017 01:15 | February 14, 2017 23:45 | 1d 22h | 4,366 | 19K |
| 9 | November 5, 2017 05:00 | November 5, 2017 19:00 | 14h | 4,212 | 6,385 |
| 10 | August 3, 2017 16:15 | August 5, 2017 04:00 | 1d 11h | 3,818 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 172 reached 100+ customers, 56 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Berks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 0.73 | 70 min | 0.60 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2017 | 3.7 hrs | 1.51 | 2.7 hrs | 1.29 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Kutztown - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 219,087 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. Berks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berks 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/berks-county