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2017 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 228K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1212th 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 Fayette 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 | February 12, 2017 18:00 | February 14, 2017 08:30 | 1d 14h | 5,147 | 25K |
| 2 | September 3, 2017 12:15 | September 3, 2017 14:30 | 2h 15m | 3,519 | 3,936 |
| 3 | August 22, 2017 19:15 | August 23, 2017 23:30 | 1d 4h | 3,046 | 20K |
| 4 | March 10, 2017 08:30 | March 11, 2017 00:45 | 16h 15m | 2,155 | 4,394 |
| 5 | November 19, 2017 04:00 | November 21, 2017 00:30 | 1d 20h | 1,814 | 8,478 |
| 6 | October 4, 2017 13:00 | October 4, 2017 14:15 | 1h 15m | 1,770 | 820 |
| 7 | June 16, 2017 11:00 | June 17, 2017 00:15 | 13h 15m | 1,738 | 9,571 |
| 8 | July 7, 2017 16:00 | July 8, 2017 19:15 | 1d 3h | 1,523 | 4,724 |
| 9 | May 23, 2017 16:30 | May 23, 2017 21:00 | 4h 30m | 1,475 | 1,129 |
| 10 | April 16, 2017 21:15 | April 16, 2017 22:45 | 1h 30m | 1,472 | 1,644 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 103 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Fayette 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, 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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county