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2017 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1566th 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 Columbia 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 11, 2017 05:15 | March 11, 2017 06:00 | 45m | 2,753 | 1,319 |
| 2 | July 3, 2017 12:15 | July 3, 2017 13:15 | 1h | 2,324 | 582 |
| 3 | July 24, 2017 05:30 | July 24, 2017 14:00 | 8h 30m | 1,615 | 2,508 |
| 4 | January 24, 2017 07:15 | January 24, 2017 18:15 | 11h | 1,588 | 905 |
| 5 | April 20, 2017 01:30 | April 20, 2017 02:15 | 45m | 1,444 | 790 |
| 6 | June 25, 2017 16:00 | June 25, 2017 18:45 | 2h 45m | 1,418 | 825 |
| 7 | April 19, 2017 17:30 | April 19, 2017 23:15 | 5h 45m | 1,298 | 3,273 |
| 8 | June 4, 2017 22:00 | June 5, 2017 09:15 | 11h 15m | 1,135 | 3,190 |
| 9 | April 16, 2017 22:00 | April 17, 2017 05:15 | 7h 15m | 1,104 | 1,820 |
| 10 | January 26, 2017 14:15 | January 26, 2017 22:00 | 7h 45m | 907 | 2,191 |
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 Columbia 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 Catawissa | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,125 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county