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2018 Elk County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Elk County, PA went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 166K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 566th 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 Elk 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 17:00 | May 18, 2018 10:30 | 2d 17h | 7,031 | 90K |
| 2 | May 4, 2018 21:15 | May 6, 2018 22:45 | 2d 1h | 1,626 | 18K |
| 3 | September 11, 2018 04:30 | September 12, 2018 03:15 | 22h 45m | 1,086 | 13K |
| 4 | June 14, 2018 15:15 | June 15, 2018 04:15 | 13h | 1,062 | 4,504 |
| 5 | July 24, 2018 13:15 | July 24, 2018 22:30 | 9h 15m | 786 | 2,804 |
| 6 | August 21, 2018 16:45 | August 23, 2018 00:15 | 1d 7h | 784 | 11K |
| 7 | May 31, 2018 11:45 | May 31, 2018 12:45 | 1h | 684 | 684 |
| 8 | November 10, 2018 15:45 | November 10, 2018 17:30 | 1h 45m | 684 | 1,009 |
| 9 | June 18, 2018 19:30 | June 19, 2018 19:15 | 23h 45m | 504 | 2,307 |
| 10 | August 13, 2018 15:00 | August 13, 2018 18:15 | 3h 15m | 468 | 478 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 29 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Elk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (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 ÷ 16,981 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county