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2018 Adams County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Adams County, PA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1368th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 18, 2018 12:00 | April 18, 2018 15:15 | 3h 15m | 2,990 | 1,497 |
| 2 | January 23, 2018 17:15 | January 25, 2018 01:30 | 1d 8h | 2,385 | 14K |
| 3 | April 25, 2018 21:45 | April 25, 2018 22:30 | 45m | 2,153 | 1,555 |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 03:30 | March 5, 2018 01:45 | 2d 22h | 1,643 | 15K |
| 5 | August 11, 2018 10:00 | August 11, 2018 18:00 | 8h | 1,630 | 867 |
| 6 | April 4, 2018 09:15 | April 5, 2018 06:00 | 20h 45m | 1,612 | 5,475 |
| 7 | May 8, 2018 11:30 | May 8, 2018 21:30 | 10h | 1,572 | 2,249 |
| 8 | May 23, 2018 18:15 | May 23, 2018 18:30 | 15m | 1,499 | 375 |
| 9 | November 12, 2018 11:15 | November 12, 2018 17:45 | 6h 30m | 1,431 | 740 |
| 10 | July 4, 2018 19:30 | July 6, 2018 04:00 | 1d 8h | 1,153 | 3,851 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 54 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2018 | 22.6 hrs | 2.00 | 2.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 95% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,102 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, PA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/pennsylvania/adams-county