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2018 Berks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Berks County, PA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 897K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1232nd 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 Berks 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 13:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 11h | 9,630 | 274K |
| 2 | May 15, 2018 02:45 | May 21, 2018 04:15 | 6d 1h | 6,642 | 54K |
| 3 | August 17, 2018 02:45 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 1d 8h | 6,416 | 32K |
| 4 | November 18, 2018 11:30 | November 18, 2018 23:15 | 11h 45m | 4,648 | 3,776 |
| 5 | July 21, 2018 09:15 | July 29, 2018 05:30 | 7d 20h | 4,352 | 55K |
| 6 | November 15, 2018 15:15 | November 18, 2018 03:30 | 2d 12h | 4,263 | 23K |
| 7 | June 17, 2018 20:30 | June 20, 2018 02:30 | 2d 6h | 3,516 | 14K |
| 8 | September 1, 2018 11:45 | September 2, 2018 04:00 | 16h 15m | 3,484 | 7,231 |
| 9 | July 14, 2018 03:15 | July 18, 2018 06:00 | 4d 2h | 3,308 | 26K |
| 10 | October 11, 2018 11:30 | October 14, 2018 02:00 | 2d 14h | 3,303 | 4,399 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 189 reached 100+ customers, 52 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 Berks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2018 | 6.6 hrs | 1.05 | 81 min | 0.73 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2018 | 22.6 hrs | 2.00 | 2.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Kutztown - (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 95% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 219,087 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. Berks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berks 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/berks-county