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2017 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 532K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1274th 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 Erie 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 | January 10, 2017 18:00 | January 13, 2017 03:00 | 2d 9h | 16,440 | 53K |
| 2 | December 28, 2017 16:00 | December 29, 2017 08:00 | 16h | 14,277 | 18K |
| 3 | February 27, 2017 17:30 | February 28, 2017 00:45 | 7h 15m | 12,956 | 5,451 |
| 4 | February 12, 2017 17:30 | February 13, 2017 20:45 | 1d 3h | 9,094 | 8,183 |
| 5 | November 5, 2017 05:00 | November 8, 2017 10:15 | 3d 5h | 6,486 | 57K |
| 6 | June 18, 2017 16:30 | June 20, 2017 07:00 | 1d 14h | 5,981 | 31K |
| 7 | September 27, 2017 13:00 | September 28, 2017 04:45 | 15h 45m | 5,188 | 2,657 |
| 8 | November 12, 2017 21:30 | November 13, 2017 11:45 | 14h 15m | 5,142 | 4,702 |
| 9 | April 27, 2017 20:00 | April 28, 2017 05:30 | 9h 30m | 4,934 | 3,669 |
| 10 | April 7, 2017 09:30 | April 7, 2017 21:15 | 11h 45m | 4,442 | 4,053 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 175 reached 100+ customers, 41 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Erie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2017 | 6.5 hrs | 2.02 | 3.2 hrs | 1.59 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county