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2017 Potter County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Potter County, PA went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 670th 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 Potter 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 | July 12, 2017 13:30 | July 12, 2017 16:30 | 3h | 1,550 | 2,519 |
| 2 | May 1, 2017 20:45 | May 4, 2017 21:15 | 3d | 1,318 | 25K |
| 3 | November 10, 2017 15:45 | November 10, 2017 20:30 | 4h 45m | 1,034 | 1,561 |
| 4 | November 30, 2017 14:30 | November 30, 2017 17:15 | 2h 45m | 1,031 | 2,835 |
| 5 | September 28, 2017 09:45 | September 28, 2017 19:00 | 9h 15m | 876 | 1,051 |
| 6 | April 30, 2017 20:00 | May 1, 2017 06:15 | 10h 15m | 779 | 5,185 |
| 7 | February 13, 2017 03:45 | February 14, 2017 03:15 | 23h 30m | 774 | 5,360 |
| 8 | January 26, 2017 02:15 | January 26, 2017 09:45 | 7h 30m | 759 | 5,315 |
| 9 | June 23, 2017 13:45 | June 23, 2017 17:45 | 4h | 749 | 574 |
| 10 | April 11, 2017 11:15 | April 11, 2017 19:00 | 7h 45m | 700 | 3,302 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 25 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Potter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2017 | 6.5 hrs | 2.02 | 3.2 hrs | 1.59 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 1.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.15 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (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 ÷ 9,352 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county