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2018 Franklin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Franklin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 102K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2172nd 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 Franklin 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 8, 2018 09:15 | May 8, 2018 12:45 | 3h 30m | 4,137 | 6,244 |
| 2 | August 26, 2018 20:30 | August 26, 2018 22:15 | 1h 45m | 2,064 | 2,387 |
| 3 | November 15, 2018 21:15 | November 17, 2018 10:30 | 1d 13h | 1,980 | 6,430 |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 05:30 | March 4, 2018 23:15 | 2d 17h | 1,976 | 24K |
| 5 | February 8, 2018 19:00 | February 8, 2018 21:45 | 2h 45m | 1,376 | 1,186 |
| 6 | November 6, 2018 13:00 | November 6, 2018 19:00 | 6h | 1,273 | 1,812 |
| 7 | February 22, 2018 07:30 | February 22, 2018 21:30 | 14h | 1,257 | 3,324 |
| 8 | March 27, 2018 23:00 | March 27, 2018 23:45 | 45m | 1,239 | 929 |
| 9 | May 4, 2018 05:45 | May 4, 2018 07:30 | 1h 45m | 1,238 | 1,632 |
| 10 | September 7, 2018 11:00 | September 7, 2018 23:00 | 12h | 1,147 | 738 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 67 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Franklin 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 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| Borough of Chambersburg | 2018 | 31 min | 0.28 | 31 min | 0.28 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mont Alto Borough | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 76,806 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county