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2018 Bedford County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bedford County, PA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1075th 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 Bedford 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 | March 2, 2018 03:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 21h | 1,755 | 31K |
| 2 | September 9, 2018 15:00 | September 10, 2018 23:15 | 1d 8h | 1,738 | 7,463 |
| 3 | May 8, 2018 13:00 | May 9, 2018 01:15 | 12h 15m | 1,502 | 3,396 |
| 4 | June 25, 2018 20:45 | June 26, 2018 05:45 | 9h | 1,500 | 768 |
| 5 | October 26, 2018 12:15 | October 26, 2018 12:30 | 15m | 1,379 | 345 |
| 6 | December 3, 2018 09:30 | December 3, 2018 16:30 | 7h | 1,243 | 3,919 |
| 7 | January 7, 2018 12:45 | January 7, 2018 17:45 | 5h | 1,046 | 1,234 |
| 8 | October 12, 2018 04:45 | October 12, 2018 08:00 | 3h 15m | 976 | 1,713 |
| 9 | May 16, 2018 02:00 | May 16, 2018 02:30 | 30m | 950 | 475 |
| 10 | September 11, 2018 07:15 | September 12, 2018 00:30 | 17h 15m | 950 | 3,721 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 59 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Bedford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.12 | 3.6 hrs | 1.86 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Enterprise R E C, 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 ÷ 26,999 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county