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2017 Blair County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Blair County, PA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 213K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1319th 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 Blair 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 19:45 | February 26, 2017 09:30 | 13h 45m | 12,981 | 14K |
| 2 | August 12, 2017 14:15 | August 12, 2017 19:45 | 5h 30m | 12,238 | 25K |
| 3 | February 9, 2017 08:00 | February 10, 2017 02:00 | 18h | 11,309 | 6,108 |
| 4 | August 21, 2017 05:30 | August 21, 2017 18:00 | 12h 30m | 4,941 | 13K |
| 5 | May 13, 2017 18:45 | May 13, 2017 22:00 | 3h 15m | 4,252 | 10K |
| 6 | March 29, 2017 13:30 | March 30, 2017 00:00 | 10h 30m | 3,469 | 3,928 |
| 7 | April 7, 2017 03:15 | April 7, 2017 05:30 | 2h 15m | 3,469 | 2,867 |
| 8 | August 7, 2017 19:15 | August 8, 2017 01:45 | 6h 30m | 3,391 | 1,696 |
| 9 | May 1, 2017 22:00 | May 5, 2017 00:00 | 3d 2h | 3,071 | 40K |
| 10 | August 19, 2017 22:00 | August 21, 2017 02:45 | 1d 4h | 2,107 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 67 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Blair 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop 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 ÷ 69,598 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. Blair County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blair 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/blair-county