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2018 Blair County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Blair County, PA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1870th 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 Blair 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 04:45 | March 3, 2018 20:15 | 1d 15h | 3,095 | 6,777 |
| 2 | May 28, 2018 17:45 | May 28, 2018 18:30 | 45m | 2,392 | 600 |
| 3 | February 7, 2018 13:45 | February 8, 2018 05:15 | 15h 30m | 2,349 | 6,287 |
| 4 | April 14, 2018 07:15 | April 15, 2018 04:00 | 20h 45m | 2,167 | 5,168 |
| 5 | October 24, 2018 14:45 | October 25, 2018 06:30 | 15h 45m | 1,867 | 7,652 |
| 6 | October 25, 2018 11:00 | October 25, 2018 17:45 | 6h 45m | 1,866 | 6,284 |
| 7 | March 11, 2018 08:15 | March 11, 2018 20:45 | 12h 30m | 1,702 | 1,101 |
| 8 | October 12, 2018 06:00 | October 13, 2018 04:45 | 22h 45m | 1,543 | 2,369 |
| 9 | June 19, 2018 09:15 | June 19, 2018 21:45 | 12h 30m | 1,507 | 1,103 |
| 10 | October 17, 2018 01:30 | October 18, 2018 04:15 | 1d 2h | 1,471 | 6,928 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 73 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Blair 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop 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 ÷ 69,598 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. Blair County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blair 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/blair-county