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2017 Northumberland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Northumberland County, PA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 162K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1204th 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 Northumberland 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 | March 27, 2017 05:30 | March 27, 2017 17:00 | 11h 30m | 7,277 | 25K |
| 2 | May 5, 2017 15:00 | May 6, 2017 23:45 | 1d 8h | 3,689 | 20K |
| 3 | March 16, 2017 14:00 | March 16, 2017 14:45 | 45m | 3,058 | 1,025 |
| 4 | March 28, 2017 12:30 | March 28, 2017 18:00 | 5h 30m | 2,396 | 1,826 |
| 5 | July 29, 2017 08:45 | July 29, 2017 16:45 | 8h | 2,325 | 8,808 |
| 6 | August 5, 2017 00:45 | August 5, 2017 23:00 | 22h 15m | 2,163 | 8,472 |
| 7 | September 12, 2017 12:45 | September 12, 2017 13:45 | 1h | 2,084 | 709 |
| 8 | April 19, 2017 16:15 | April 19, 2017 17:15 | 1h | 2,083 | 886 |
| 9 | April 2, 2017 20:00 | April 2, 2017 20:45 | 45m | 1,900 | 989 |
| 10 | September 10, 2017 17:30 | September 10, 2017 17:45 | 15m | 1,596 | 399 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 74 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Northumberland 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 |
| Citizens Electric Co - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Watsontown - (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 ÷ 46,261 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. Northumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northumberland 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/northumberland-county