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2018 Lackawanna County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lackawanna County, PA went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 317K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1621st 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 Lackawanna 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 18:00 | May 19, 2018 01:45 | 3d 7h | 7,784 | 62K |
| 2 | August 15, 2018 01:45 | August 15, 2018 04:45 | 3h | 6,507 | 1,757 |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 12:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 12h | 4,623 | 122K |
| 4 | February 28, 2018 14:15 | February 28, 2018 21:00 | 6h 45m | 3,077 | 4,256 |
| 5 | August 2, 2018 02:30 | August 2, 2018 05:15 | 2h 45m | 3,022 | 1,214 |
| 6 | August 15, 2018 06:45 | August 15, 2018 08:15 | 1h 30m | 2,573 | 647 |
| 7 | April 26, 2018 09:15 | April 26, 2018 14:00 | 4h 45m | 2,386 | 1,216 |
| 8 | April 15, 2018 19:15 | April 17, 2018 02:00 | 1d 6h | 2,299 | 20K |
| 9 | April 28, 2018 13:00 | April 28, 2018 22:30 | 9h 30m | 2,057 | 2,403 |
| 10 | April 30, 2018 19:00 | April 30, 2018 19:15 | 15m | 1,989 | 497 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 101 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Lackawanna 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2018 | 6.6 hrs | 1.05 | 81 min | 0.73 |
| Claverack Rural Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Blakely - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Olyphant - (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 ÷ 119,979 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. Lackawanna County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lackawanna 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/lackawanna-county