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2018 Jefferson County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Jefferson County, PA went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 824th 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 Jefferson 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 2, 2018 08:00 | April 2, 2018 10:15 | 2h 15m | 6,198 | 8,660 |
| 2 | April 4, 2018 11:15 | April 6, 2018 22:00 | 2d 10h | 2,391 | 27K |
| 3 | June 24, 2018 19:15 | June 24, 2018 20:15 | 1h | 2,377 | 1,406 |
| 4 | September 10, 2018 02:15 | September 11, 2018 01:45 | 23h 30m | 2,301 | 3,900 |
| 5 | April 16, 2018 15:00 | April 16, 2018 19:30 | 4h 30m | 1,686 | 1,566 |
| 6 | October 9, 2018 19:30 | October 10, 2018 00:30 | 5h | 1,682 | 928 |
| 7 | August 21, 2018 20:30 | August 22, 2018 11:00 | 14h 30m | 1,428 | 616 |
| 8 | July 12, 2018 12:30 | July 12, 2018 16:15 | 3h 45m | 1,349 | 372 |
| 9 | May 19, 2018 11:15 | May 19, 2018 15:30 | 4h 15m | 1,338 | 4,024 |
| 10 | July 17, 2018 00:15 | July 17, 2018 03:45 | 3h 30m | 1,286 | 2,375 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 66 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Jefferson 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy 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 ÷ 20,070 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county