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2017 Washington County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Washington County, PA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 725K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 816th 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 Washington 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 4, 2017 18:00 | August 7, 2017 00:00 | 2d 6h | 8,244 | 45K |
| 2 | June 23, 2017 11:45 | June 25, 2017 19:30 | 2d 7h | 7,005 | 69K |
| 3 | May 1, 2017 13:30 | May 4, 2017 23:15 | 3d 9h | 6,817 | 65K |
| 4 | July 11, 2017 19:00 | July 13, 2017 10:45 | 1d 15h | 5,345 | 25K |
| 5 | August 22, 2017 10:45 | August 25, 2017 21:45 | 3d 11h | 4,824 | 45K |
| 6 | February 25, 2017 12:30 | February 25, 2017 17:00 | 4h 30m | 3,865 | 7,216 |
| 7 | April 11, 2017 19:45 | April 11, 2017 20:15 | 30m | 3,027 | 1,503 |
| 8 | March 8, 2017 03:00 | March 10, 2017 22:15 | 2d 19h | 2,752 | 22K |
| 9 | November 18, 2017 23:30 | November 21, 2017 04:00 | 2d 4h | 2,727 | 35K |
| 10 | August 17, 2017 20:45 | August 22, 2017 01:30 | 4d 4h | 2,634 | 31K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 152 reached 100+ customers, 49 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 1.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.15 |
| 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 ÷ 113,196 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county