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2017 Dauphin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dauphin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 264K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1828th 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 Dauphin 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 | October 29, 2017 21:45 | November 1, 2017 06:00 | 2d 8h | 11,870 | 93K |
| 2 | April 17, 2017 00:15 | April 17, 2017 00:30 | 15m | 9,587 | 2,397 |
| 3 | March 15, 2017 13:45 | March 16, 2017 03:15 | 13h 30m | 3,304 | 5,216 |
| 4 | August 16, 2017 11:00 | August 17, 2017 05:00 | 18h | 2,888 | 5,647 |
| 5 | February 9, 2017 06:00 | February 10, 2017 15:30 | 1d 9h | 2,449 | 4,547 |
| 6 | November 8, 2017 05:00 | November 8, 2017 05:15 | 15m | 2,323 | 581 |
| 7 | August 30, 2017 15:00 | August 30, 2017 20:00 | 5h | 2,116 | 4,525 |
| 8 | February 10, 2017 17:45 | February 11, 2017 02:45 | 9h | 1,984 | 2,372 |
| 9 | February 15, 2017 13:30 | February 15, 2017 18:15 | 4h 45m | 1,980 | 558 |
| 10 | August 28, 2017 13:45 | August 29, 2017 00:30 | 10h 45m | 1,964 | 692 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 136 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Dauphin 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 Middletown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Royalton - (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 ÷ 176,757 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. Dauphin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dauphin 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/dauphin-county