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2017 Lackawanna County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lackawanna County, PA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 173K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1848th 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 Lackawanna 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 25, 2017 12:15 | October 25, 2017 12:30 | 15m | 5,315 | 1,329 |
| 2 | July 24, 2017 08:45 | July 26, 2017 07:15 | 1d 22h | 4,442 | 33K |
| 3 | May 27, 2017 17:30 | May 27, 2017 19:45 | 2h 15m | 4,438 | 2,490 |
| 4 | July 20, 2017 09:15 | July 22, 2017 00:45 | 1d 15h | 3,161 | 20K |
| 5 | February 25, 2017 20:00 | February 26, 2017 20:45 | 1d | 3,071 | 11K |
| 6 | November 19, 2017 08:30 | November 20, 2017 00:00 | 15h 30m | 2,749 | 7,560 |
| 7 | June 19, 2017 15:30 | June 20, 2017 00:45 | 9h 15m | 2,649 | 2,460 |
| 8 | May 2, 2017 01:45 | May 2, 2017 02:15 | 30m | 2,647 | 1,324 |
| 9 | March 10, 2017 07:45 | March 10, 2017 13:00 | 5h 15m | 2,646 | 1,338 |
| 10 | March 14, 2017 17:15 | March 14, 2017 23:30 | 6h 15m | 2,033 | 2,881 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 79 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Lackawanna 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 |
| Claverack Rural Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Blakely - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Olyphant - (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 ÷ 119,979 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. Lackawanna County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lackawanna 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/lackawanna-county