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2017 Carbon County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Carbon County, PA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1795th 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 Carbon 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 | March 22, 2017 10:45 | March 22, 2017 11:00 | 15m | 2,655 | 664 |
| 2 | July 5, 2017 20:15 | July 5, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 2,139 | 535 |
| 3 | January 28, 2017 19:00 | January 29, 2017 00:00 | 5h | 1,789 | 5,046 |
| 4 | February 13, 2017 09:00 | February 14, 2017 06:15 | 21h 15m | 1,294 | 3,850 |
| 5 | September 19, 2017 13:45 | September 19, 2017 18:30 | 4h 45m | 1,286 | 439 |
| 6 | July 19, 2017 17:45 | July 19, 2017 23:00 | 5h 15m | 1,077 | 2,216 |
| 7 | October 14, 2017 02:15 | October 14, 2017 15:15 | 13h | 1,072 | 2,185 |
| 8 | April 18, 2017 22:30 | April 19, 2017 01:30 | 3h | 1,050 | 795 |
| 9 | August 9, 2017 21:00 | August 9, 2017 23:45 | 2h 45m | 651 | 670 |
| 10 | April 17, 2017 00:00 | April 17, 2017 06:15 | 6h 15m | 540 | 2,915 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 41 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Carbon 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 |
| Borough of Lehighton - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Weatherly - (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 ÷ 32,206 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. Carbon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carbon 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/carbon-county