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2017 Northampton County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Northampton County, PA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 493K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1324th 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 Northampton 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 15, 2017 11:00 | June 15, 2017 20:15 | 9h 15m | 16,692 | 13K |
| 2 | July 20, 2017 09:15 | July 22, 2017 04:00 | 1d 18h | 11,583 | 8,174 |
| 3 | February 25, 2017 20:15 | February 28, 2017 05:15 | 2d 9h | 9,250 | 74K |
| 4 | June 19, 2017 12:45 | June 21, 2017 19:30 | 2d 6h | 7,699 | 27K |
| 5 | March 10, 2017 06:30 | March 11, 2017 03:00 | 20h 30m | 6,686 | 52K |
| 6 | January 5, 2017 12:45 | January 6, 2017 01:15 | 12h 30m | 6,134 | 10K |
| 7 | March 17, 2017 20:30 | March 19, 2017 09:15 | 1d 12h | 4,918 | 20K |
| 8 | October 6, 2017 12:15 | October 7, 2017 07:45 | 19h 30m | 4,289 | 1,569 |
| 9 | August 17, 2017 11:30 | August 18, 2017 14:45 | 1d 3h | 3,619 | 3,393 |
| 10 | February 9, 2017 11:30 | February 10, 2017 19:45 | 1d 8h | 3,460 | 7,059 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 165 reached 100+ customers, 59 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 Northampton 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 ÷ 161,848 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county