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2018 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 761K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1119th 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 Erie 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 | March 1, 2018 12:30 | March 5, 2018 08:45 | 3d 20h | 20,256 | 219K |
| 2 | September 4, 2018 21:15 | September 6, 2018 03:15 | 1d 6h | 15,626 | 31K |
| 3 | May 25, 2018 11:00 | May 26, 2018 04:15 | 17h 15m | 12,738 | 19K |
| 4 | July 15, 2018 10:45 | July 17, 2018 05:15 | 1d 18h | 8,875 | 20K |
| 5 | September 21, 2018 11:45 | September 22, 2018 09:00 | 21h 15m | 8,355 | 6,654 |
| 6 | March 17, 2018 23:15 | March 18, 2018 07:15 | 8h | 8,163 | 19K |
| 7 | June 10, 2018 10:15 | June 11, 2018 04:45 | 18h 30m | 7,720 | 12K |
| 8 | May 24, 2018 11:15 | May 24, 2018 23:15 | 12h | 7,459 | 2,325 |
| 9 | January 2, 2018 11:00 | January 3, 2018 07:00 | 20h | 7,356 | 4,956 |
| 10 | August 20, 2018 11:45 | August 22, 2018 07:45 | 1d 20h | 6,768 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 186 reached 100+ customers, 49 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Erie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.12 | 3.6 hrs | 1.86 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county