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2017 Westmoreland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Westmoreland County, PA went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 691K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1172nd 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 Westmoreland 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 22, 2017 12:15 | August 24, 2017 06:00 | 1d 17h | 8,425 | 70K |
| 2 | July 11, 2017 09:45 | July 13, 2017 03:30 | 1d 17h | 6,223 | 18K |
| 3 | April 30, 2017 18:30 | May 4, 2017 08:00 | 3d 13h | 5,466 | 53K |
| 4 | June 13, 2017 09:45 | June 15, 2017 10:00 | 2d | 5,392 | 29K |
| 5 | February 12, 2017 09:30 | February 15, 2017 00:00 | 2d 14h | 5,238 | 42K |
| 6 | April 20, 2017 14:30 | April 22, 2017 02:45 | 1d 12h | 4,247 | 16K |
| 7 | June 20, 2017 11:15 | June 21, 2017 04:15 | 17h | 4,154 | 3,667 |
| 8 | August 4, 2017 12:45 | August 6, 2017 21:45 | 2d 9h | 3,985 | 32K |
| 9 | January 11, 2017 00:15 | January 12, 2017 06:30 | 1d 6h | 3,535 | 16K |
| 10 | March 10, 2017 00:15 | March 11, 2017 05:45 | 1d 5h | 3,484 | 9,863 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 197 reached 100+ customers, 61 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 Westmoreland 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duquesne Light 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 ÷ 188,408 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. Westmoreland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Westmoreland 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/westmoreland-county