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2018 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 312K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1098th 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 Fayette 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 19, 2018 20:30 | March 20, 2018 07:45 | 11h 15m | 4,895 | 8,357 |
| 2 | September 9, 2018 06:45 | September 12, 2018 23:15 | 3d 16h | 4,064 | 65K |
| 3 | February 15, 2018 21:15 | February 17, 2018 22:45 | 2d 1h | 3,480 | 37K |
| 4 | July 3, 2018 02:30 | July 4, 2018 18:30 | 1d 16h | 3,343 | 6,466 |
| 5 | May 12, 2018 20:00 | May 13, 2018 04:30 | 8h 30m | 2,861 | 4,086 |
| 6 | May 28, 2018 22:15 | May 29, 2018 05:15 | 7h | 2,610 | 3,288 |
| 7 | November 12, 2018 16:00 | November 12, 2018 19:15 | 3h 15m | 2,606 | 4,112 |
| 8 | July 31, 2018 19:15 | August 2, 2018 07:30 | 1d 12h | 2,602 | 4,992 |
| 9 | June 18, 2018 19:15 | June 18, 2018 19:45 | 30m | 2,428 | 1,214 |
| 10 | September 8, 2018 04:30 | September 8, 2018 19:30 | 15h | 1,938 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 102 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 Fayette 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, 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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county