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2018 Dauphin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dauphin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 322K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1943rd 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 Dauphin 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 | April 4, 2018 15:00 | April 5, 2018 22:30 | 1d 7h | 10,295 | 5,955 |
| 2 | May 15, 2018 17:15 | May 18, 2018 11:00 | 2d 17h | 6,351 | 22K |
| 3 | October 31, 2018 22:45 | October 31, 2018 23:00 | 15m | 4,722 | 1,181 |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 11:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 13h | 4,320 | 103K |
| 5 | September 9, 2018 16:30 | September 11, 2018 22:30 | 2d 6h | 3,593 | 4,684 |
| 6 | January 19, 2018 23:45 | January 20, 2018 00:00 | 15m | 3,093 | 773 |
| 7 | July 21, 2018 18:30 | July 28, 2018 21:45 | 7d 3h | 2,930 | 29K |
| 8 | January 5, 2018 08:00 | January 6, 2018 01:30 | 17h 30m | 2,912 | 2,705 |
| 9 | August 28, 2018 20:30 | August 28, 2018 21:45 | 1h 15m | 2,860 | 968 |
| 10 | January 9, 2018 22:30 | January 10, 2018 04:45 | 6h 15m | 2,807 | 5,240 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 129 reached 100+ customers, 37 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Dauphin 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 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2018 | 22.6 hrs | 2.00 | 2.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Middletown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Royalton - (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 ÷ 176,757 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. Dauphin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dauphin 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/dauphin-county