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2017 Union County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Union County, PA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1677th 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 Union 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 | May 1, 2017 23:00 | May 3, 2017 04:15 | 1d 5h | 5,368 | 4,966 |
| 2 | March 27, 2017 05:30 | March 27, 2017 17:00 | 11h 30m | 2,149 | 14K |
| 3 | October 30, 2017 05:00 | October 31, 2017 18:00 | 1d 13h | 1,076 | 8,650 |
| 4 | March 2, 2017 09:45 | March 2, 2017 20:00 | 10h 15m | 1,030 | 5,818 |
| 5 | May 5, 2017 15:15 | May 6, 2017 06:00 | 14h 45m | 861 | 3,144 |
| 6 | August 1, 2017 20:30 | August 1, 2017 22:00 | 1h 30m | 732 | 915 |
| 7 | November 2, 2017 06:00 | November 2, 2017 06:15 | 15m | 575 | 144 |
| 8 | March 2, 2017 20:45 | March 2, 2017 21:30 | 45m | 461 | 232 |
| 9 | March 30, 2017 11:15 | March 30, 2017 14:15 | 3h | 442 | 709 |
| 10 | February 25, 2017 19:15 | February 26, 2017 03:15 | 8h | 437 | 222 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 26 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 Union 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 Mifflinburg - (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 ÷ 28,701 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county