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2017 Elk County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Elk County, PA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 972nd 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 Elk 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 8, 2017 05:30 | March 11, 2017 01:45 | 2d 20h | 2,989 | 30K |
| 2 | May 1, 2017 20:30 | May 5, 2017 20:00 | 3d 23h | 2,829 | 26K |
| 3 | March 20, 2017 13:30 | March 20, 2017 16:30 | 3h | 1,740 | 2,588 |
| 4 | January 3, 2017 15:30 | January 3, 2017 19:30 | 4h | 1,377 | 1,387 |
| 5 | February 13, 2017 01:15 | February 13, 2017 21:15 | 20h | 932 | 5,513 |
| 6 | October 30, 2017 09:30 | October 30, 2017 12:00 | 2h 30m | 476 | 495 |
| 7 | July 29, 2017 02:00 | July 29, 2017 08:00 | 6h | 467 | 1,927 |
| 8 | February 26, 2017 00:45 | February 26, 2017 08:00 | 7h 15m | 403 | 941 |
| 9 | November 18, 2017 16:00 | November 18, 2017 17:30 | 1h 30m | 402 | 464 |
| 10 | February 7, 2017 12:45 | February 7, 2017 15:15 | 2h 30m | 266 | 401 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 22 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Elk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 1.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.15 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (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 ÷ 16,981 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county