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2017 Franklin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Franklin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1830th 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 Franklin 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 | September 5, 2017 19:30 | September 7, 2017 01:45 | 1d 6h | 5,130 | 25K |
| 2 | October 27, 2017 11:15 | October 27, 2017 15:45 | 4h 30m | 3,535 | 1,793 |
| 3 | December 4, 2017 14:30 | December 4, 2017 20:15 | 5h 45m | 2,993 | 2,265 |
| 4 | June 19, 2017 17:15 | June 20, 2017 01:15 | 8h | 2,078 | 2,583 |
| 5 | February 13, 2017 02:45 | February 14, 2017 16:45 | 1d 14h | 2,069 | 6,787 |
| 6 | August 4, 2017 19:15 | August 6, 2017 10:15 | 1d 15h | 1,984 | 12K |
| 7 | April 25, 2017 20:00 | April 26, 2017 02:45 | 6h 45m | 1,788 | 538 |
| 8 | November 16, 2017 16:30 | November 16, 2017 20:45 | 4h 15m | 1,468 | 697 |
| 9 | March 2, 2017 03:45 | March 3, 2017 03:15 | 23h 30m | 1,357 | 2,373 |
| 10 | October 24, 2017 06:00 | October 25, 2017 00:00 | 18h | 1,256 | 4,583 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 70 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Franklin 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 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 1.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.15 |
| Borough of Chambersburg | 2017 | 26 min | 0.34 | 26 min | 0.34 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mont Alto Borough | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 76,806 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county