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2018 Cambria County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cambria County, PA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 272K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1233rd 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 Cambria 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 | November 29, 2018 18:00 | November 29, 2018 19:45 | 1h 45m | 6,066 | 3,303 |
| 2 | April 4, 2018 02:45 | April 6, 2018 02:00 | 1d 23h | 5,712 | 47K |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 01:45 | March 4, 2018 01:30 | 1d 23h | 4,563 | 34K |
| 4 | September 25, 2018 06:15 | September 25, 2018 08:45 | 2h 30m | 3,935 | 5,722 |
| 5 | May 1, 2018 11:30 | May 2, 2018 01:45 | 14h 15m | 3,869 | 11K |
| 6 | June 18, 2018 15:15 | June 18, 2018 19:30 | 4h 15m | 3,666 | 2,847 |
| 7 | February 5, 2018 12:30 | February 5, 2018 19:15 | 6h 45m | 2,677 | 694 |
| 8 | April 23, 2018 16:30 | April 23, 2018 22:45 | 6h 15m | 2,413 | 2,678 |
| 9 | September 9, 2018 22:30 | September 10, 2018 19:30 | 21h | 2,043 | 5,694 |
| 10 | September 17, 2018 16:30 | September 18, 2018 03:30 | 11h | 2,016 | 4,483 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 112 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Cambria 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of East Conemaugh | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Summerhill - (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 ÷ 66,666 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. Cambria County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cambria 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/cambria-county