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2017 Luzerne County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Luzerne County, PA went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2176th 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 Luzerne 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 | August 1, 2017 17:15 | August 1, 2017 21:00 | 3h 45m | 3,179 | 2,805 |
| 2 | February 25, 2017 19:45 | February 27, 2017 07:30 | 1d 11h | 2,682 | 15K |
| 3 | July 17, 2017 18:30 | July 18, 2017 07:45 | 13h 15m | 2,316 | 4,347 |
| 4 | November 2, 2017 12:45 | November 2, 2017 18:00 | 5h 15m | 2,078 | 1,645 |
| 5 | January 22, 2017 09:45 | January 22, 2017 20:15 | 10h 30m | 2,015 | 8,833 |
| 6 | July 20, 2017 22:00 | July 21, 2017 22:00 | 1d | 1,854 | 8,008 |
| 7 | January 11, 2017 06:15 | January 11, 2017 09:30 | 3h 15m | 1,716 | 2,218 |
| 8 | January 1, 2017 10:15 | January 1, 2017 10:30 | 15m | 1,463 | 366 |
| 9 | August 31, 2017 07:00 | August 31, 2017 11:30 | 4h 30m | 1,338 | 5,716 |
| 10 | May 25, 2017 16:00 | May 25, 2017 18:15 | 2h 15m | 1,320 | 1,510 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 79 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Luzerne 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 |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | 2017 | 64 min | 0.49 | 64 min | 0.49 |
| Claverack 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 ÷ 164,504 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. Luzerne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luzerne 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/luzerne-county