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2017 Montgomery County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Montgomery County, PA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 773K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1213th 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 Montgomery 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 17, 2017 10:15 | June 30, 2017 01:45 | 12d 15h | 11,647 | 146K |
| 2 | September 5, 2017 08:30 | September 8, 2017 08:00 | 2d 23h | 10,719 | 21K |
| 3 | September 16, 2017 11:30 | September 19, 2017 08:15 | 2d 20h | 7,979 | 8,416 |
| 4 | September 19, 2017 11:45 | September 20, 2017 14:15 | 1d 2h | 7,639 | 3,381 |
| 5 | July 11, 2017 12:15 | July 19, 2017 21:15 | 8d 9h | 5,981 | 15K |
| 6 | April 5, 2017 23:45 | April 11, 2017 06:00 | 5d 6h | 5,387 | 9,763 |
| 7 | November 18, 2017 14:30 | November 21, 2017 01:30 | 2d 11h | 5,192 | 26K |
| 8 | July 21, 2017 09:15 | July 31, 2017 05:15 | 9d 20h | 5,158 | 44K |
| 9 | May 11, 2017 10:45 | May 11, 2017 19:00 | 8h 15m | 5,100 | 1,350 |
| 10 | December 23, 2017 04:00 | December 28, 2017 02:00 | 4d 22h | 4,902 | 33K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 182 reached 100+ customers, 62 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Montgomery 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 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2017 | 1.5 hrs | 0.87 | 74 min | 0.79 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Hatfield- (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Lansdale | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 224,080 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county