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2017 Lehigh County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lehigh County, PA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 270K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1923rd 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 Lehigh 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 | June 30, 2017 21:45 | July 3, 2017 05:15 | 2d 7h | 7,509 | 55K |
| 2 | February 25, 2017 20:45 | February 27, 2017 21:15 | 2d | 5,393 | 28K |
| 3 | July 24, 2017 10:15 | July 26, 2017 01:30 | 1d 15h | 5,093 | 19K |
| 4 | June 13, 2017 06:15 | June 13, 2017 06:30 | 15m | 4,592 | 1,148 |
| 5 | June 19, 2017 13:30 | June 21, 2017 02:45 | 1d 13h | 4,062 | 13K |
| 6 | January 9, 2017 19:30 | January 9, 2017 22:15 | 2h 45m | 2,826 | 4,208 |
| 7 | October 29, 2017 23:15 | October 31, 2017 14:30 | 1d 15h | 2,814 | 3,780 |
| 8 | February 25, 2017 14:00 | February 25, 2017 17:45 | 3h 45m | 2,416 | 658 |
| 9 | January 8, 2017 18:15 | January 9, 2017 02:45 | 8h 30m | 1,918 | 1,111 |
| 10 | January 26, 2017 14:30 | January 27, 2017 01:45 | 11h 15m | 1,817 | 1,300 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 138 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Lehigh 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 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2017 | 3.7 hrs | 1.51 | 2.7 hrs | 1.29 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 212,008 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. Lehigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lehigh 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/lehigh-county