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2018 Cumberland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cumberland County, PA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 277K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1892nd 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 Cumberland 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 | September 25, 2018 12:45 | September 25, 2018 15:30 | 2h 45m | 7,057 | 4,130 |
| 2 | July 8, 2018 00:30 | July 8, 2018 02:00 | 1h 30m | 6,204 | 1,708 |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 08:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 16h | 4,981 | 44K |
| 4 | May 15, 2018 20:15 | May 18, 2018 06:00 | 2d 9h | 4,589 | 35K |
| 5 | April 4, 2018 15:30 | April 6, 2018 01:30 | 1d 10h | 4,318 | 21K |
| 6 | July 4, 2018 18:15 | July 5, 2018 04:15 | 10h | 4,011 | 5,228 |
| 7 | June 26, 2018 11:15 | June 26, 2018 20:15 | 9h | 3,253 | 1,070 |
| 8 | December 2, 2018 04:45 | December 2, 2018 17:00 | 12h 15m | 3,177 | 5,955 |
| 9 | March 27, 2018 16:30 | March 27, 2018 19:00 | 2h 30m | 3,073 | 2,461 |
| 10 | February 9, 2018 11:15 | February 9, 2018 18:15 | 7h | 2,829 | 2,339 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 120 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Cumberland 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 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2018 | 22.6 hrs | 2.00 | 2.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative 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 ÷ 142,576 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county