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2018 Lancaster County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lancaster County, PA went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 372K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1698th 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 Lancaster 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 2, 2018 07:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 18h | 6,447 | 80K |
| 2 | June 20, 2018 19:30 | June 21, 2018 01:30 | 6h | 6,109 | 2,850 |
| 3 | April 19, 2018 12:30 | April 19, 2018 18:15 | 5h 45m | 4,334 | 1,532 |
| 4 | November 3, 2018 00:30 | November 4, 2018 01:45 | 1d 1h | 3,961 | 10K |
| 5 | April 19, 2018 19:00 | April 19, 2018 19:45 | 45m | 3,884 | 1,153 |
| 6 | July 27, 2018 17:00 | July 28, 2018 07:45 | 14h 45m | 3,653 | 3,004 |
| 7 | September 11, 2018 20:00 | September 11, 2018 22:15 | 2h 15m | 3,326 | 3,365 |
| 8 | October 23, 2018 11:15 | October 23, 2018 22:45 | 11h 30m | 3,006 | 1,584 |
| 9 | August 17, 2018 18:00 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 17h | 2,741 | 8,057 |
| 10 | November 18, 2018 00:30 | November 18, 2018 06:45 | 6h 15m | 2,680 | 5,087 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 210 reached 100+ customers, 64 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 Lancaster 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 |
| Borough of Ephrata - (PA) | 2018 | 35 min | 0.53 | 35 min | 0.53 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 156,892 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county