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2018 Centre County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Centre County, PA went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 166K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1984th 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 Centre 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 | January 3, 2018 12:30 | January 3, 2018 21:45 | 9h 15m | 6,269 | 5,025 |
| 2 | August 13, 2018 21:15 | August 14, 2018 00:15 | 3h | 2,740 | 1,682 |
| 3 | April 4, 2018 12:30 | April 6, 2018 07:30 | 1d 19h | 2,165 | 7,743 |
| 4 | July 4, 2018 09:15 | July 5, 2018 04:15 | 19h | 1,878 | 5,381 |
| 5 | November 21, 2018 11:00 | November 21, 2018 13:00 | 2h | 1,781 | 2,960 |
| 6 | August 22, 2018 23:30 | August 23, 2018 12:15 | 12h 45m | 1,774 | 9,050 |
| 7 | March 9, 2018 16:45 | March 10, 2018 03:45 | 11h | 1,733 | 936 |
| 8 | July 23, 2018 12:15 | July 24, 2018 05:45 | 17h 30m | 1,728 | 4,686 |
| 9 | October 2, 2018 22:45 | October 3, 2018 20:00 | 21h 15m | 1,721 | 6,197 |
| 10 | November 10, 2018 15:00 | November 11, 2018 21:30 | 1d 6h | 1,694 | 3,315 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 93 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Centre 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric 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 ÷ 96,428 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. Centre County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Centre 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/centre-county