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2017 Somerset County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Somerset County, PA went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 123K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1185th 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 Somerset 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 19, 2017 22:15 | August 20, 2017 07:45 | 9h 30m | 3,330 | 12K |
| 2 | February 12, 2017 20:00 | February 14, 2017 03:30 | 1d 7h | 3,084 | 9,560 |
| 3 | March 24, 2017 12:30 | March 24, 2017 13:45 | 1h 15m | 1,974 | 1,023 |
| 4 | December 19, 2017 10:30 | December 19, 2017 17:45 | 7h 15m | 1,949 | 3,663 |
| 5 | May 12, 2017 14:00 | May 12, 2017 17:00 | 3h | 1,817 | 562 |
| 6 | April 20, 2017 19:00 | April 20, 2017 23:45 | 4h 45m | 1,779 | 461 |
| 7 | April 1, 2017 08:45 | April 1, 2017 10:30 | 1h 45m | 1,709 | 1,603 |
| 8 | October 31, 2017 15:30 | October 31, 2017 23:15 | 7h 45m | 1,615 | 5,291 |
| 9 | October 1, 2017 07:30 | October 1, 2017 13:30 | 6h | 1,614 | 6,191 |
| 10 | March 8, 2017 16:45 | March 8, 2017 23:45 | 7h | 1,610 | 2,836 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 75 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Somerset 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Berlin - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hooversville Boro Elec Lgt 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 ÷ 34,025 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county