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2017 Cumberland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cumberland County, PA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 228K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1787th 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 Cumberland 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 | August 4, 2017 15:15 | August 6, 2017 23:15 | 2d 8h | 8,616 | 40K |
| 2 | September 5, 2017 06:00 | September 5, 2017 09:30 | 3h 30m | 4,523 | 6,125 |
| 3 | June 27, 2017 14:15 | June 27, 2017 19:15 | 5h | 3,512 | 1,794 |
| 4 | October 29, 2017 20:30 | November 1, 2017 00:45 | 2d 4h | 3,184 | 30K |
| 5 | October 23, 2017 13:45 | October 23, 2017 21:15 | 7h 30m | 3,160 | 4,622 |
| 6 | October 2, 2017 12:30 | October 2, 2017 19:00 | 6h 30m | 2,565 | 1,205 |
| 7 | March 10, 2017 18:15 | March 11, 2017 06:15 | 12h | 2,439 | 9,294 |
| 8 | November 19, 2017 06:30 | November 20, 2017 02:00 | 19h 30m | 2,373 | 13K |
| 9 | November 9, 2017 14:15 | November 9, 2017 16:15 | 2h | 2,221 | 785 |
| 10 | August 22, 2017 23:00 | August 23, 2017 06:15 | 7h 15m | 1,993 | 2,548 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 105 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Cumberland 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 |
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2017 | 6.5 hrs | 2.02 | 3.2 hrs | 1.59 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2017 | 3.7 hrs | 1.51 | 2.7 hrs | 1.29 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative 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 ÷ 142,576 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county