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2018 Carbon County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Carbon County, PA went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 329K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 534th 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 Carbon 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 13:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 11h | 8,904 | 194K |
| 2 | June 14, 2018 15:00 | June 15, 2018 19:00 | 1d 4h | 5,381 | 18K |
| 3 | October 2, 2018 20:45 | October 3, 2018 23:45 | 1d 3h | 4,300 | 1,909 |
| 4 | May 15, 2018 18:15 | May 18, 2018 19:30 | 3d 1h | 4,166 | 57K |
| 5 | June 28, 2018 15:30 | June 28, 2018 15:45 | 15m | 2,422 | 606 |
| 6 | June 18, 2018 09:30 | June 18, 2018 10:15 | 45m | 2,289 | 573 |
| 7 | July 10, 2018 14:45 | July 10, 2018 16:15 | 1h 30m | 1,702 | 445 |
| 8 | April 16, 2018 07:15 | April 16, 2018 20:00 | 12h 45m | 1,515 | 5,826 |
| 9 | April 4, 2018 18:00 | April 6, 2018 01:45 | 1d 7h | 1,396 | 3,466 |
| 10 | January 13, 2018 20:45 | January 13, 2018 23:45 | 3h | 1,284 | 1,228 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 60 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Carbon 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 |
| Borough of Lehighton - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Weatherly - (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 ÷ 32,206 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. Carbon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carbon 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/carbon-county