County annual report · FIPS 42037
2018 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 350K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 554th 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 Columbia 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 | May 15, 2018 19:00 | May 19, 2018 00:15 | 3d 5h | 5,162 | 138K |
| 2 | April 4, 2018 16:45 | April 6, 2018 00:15 | 1d 7h | 2,355 | 13K |
| 3 | December 14, 2018 03:00 | December 14, 2018 03:15 | 15m | 2,306 | 577 |
| 4 | January 4, 2018 11:45 | January 4, 2018 12:00 | 15m | 2,282 | 571 |
| 5 | February 20, 2018 09:30 | February 20, 2018 11:30 | 2h | 1,744 | 586 |
| 6 | March 2, 2018 09:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 15h | 1,721 | 82K |
| 7 | July 22, 2018 07:00 | July 22, 2018 20:30 | 13h 30m | 1,635 | 11K |
| 8 | July 28, 2018 11:45 | July 28, 2018 13:15 | 1h 30m | 1,253 | 1,401 |
| 9 | December 29, 2018 05:15 | December 29, 2018 12:15 | 7h | 1,202 | 948 |
| 10 | September 21, 2018 22:15 | September 21, 2018 22:30 | 15m | 1,112 | 278 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 77 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Columbia 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 Catawissa | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,125 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county