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2018 Luzerne County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Luzerne County, PA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 312K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1910th 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 Luzerne 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 | June 14, 2018 02:15 | June 15, 2018 09:45 | 1d 7h | 13,493 | 35K |
| 2 | May 15, 2018 19:15 | May 18, 2018 20:45 | 3d 1h | 7,685 | 82K |
| 3 | August 28, 2018 10:30 | August 28, 2018 18:15 | 7h 45m | 6,401 | 3,672 |
| 4 | December 18, 2018 11:15 | December 18, 2018 20:00 | 8h 45m | 4,220 | 4,909 |
| 5 | September 1, 2018 01:00 | September 1, 2018 12:15 | 11h 15m | 3,865 | 4,669 |
| 6 | June 1, 2018 02:15 | June 1, 2018 03:15 | 1h | 3,184 | 1,546 |
| 7 | April 19, 2018 12:45 | April 19, 2018 13:00 | 15m | 2,540 | 635 |
| 8 | February 5, 2018 00:45 | February 5, 2018 02:00 | 1h 15m | 2,520 | 1,892 |
| 9 | April 4, 2018 17:00 | April 6, 2018 00:30 | 1d 7h | 2,490 | 17K |
| 10 | March 2, 2018 13:15 | March 5, 2018 03:45 | 2d 14h | 2,295 | 25K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 101 reached 100+ customers, 24 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Luzerne 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 |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.20 | 3.6 hrs | 1.20 |
| Claverack 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 ÷ 164,504 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. Luzerne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luzerne 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/luzerne-county