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2018 Mercer County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Mercer County, PA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 222K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1123rd 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 Mercer 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 23, 2018 11:45 | June 24, 2018 11:30 | 23h 45m | 24,869 | 25K |
| 2 | September 9, 2018 20:30 | September 11, 2018 07:45 | 1d 11h | 7,794 | 12K |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 03:45 | March 4, 2018 07:45 | 2d 4h | 5,897 | 31K |
| 4 | November 15, 2018 23:30 | November 19, 2018 11:15 | 3d 11h | 4,565 | 27K |
| 5 | June 13, 2018 11:15 | June 14, 2018 08:15 | 21h | 4,291 | 8,246 |
| 6 | October 15, 2018 18:15 | October 16, 2018 05:00 | 10h 45m | 3,207 | 3,142 |
| 7 | April 26, 2018 18:00 | April 27, 2018 03:15 | 9h 15m | 2,453 | 905 |
| 8 | July 18, 2018 12:45 | July 18, 2018 22:15 | 9h 30m | 2,109 | 1,650 |
| 9 | August 13, 2018 18:15 | August 14, 2018 06:45 | 12h 30m | 2,109 | 2,166 |
| 10 | April 1, 2018 10:15 | April 2, 2018 00:00 | 13h 45m | 2,100 | 2,767 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 91 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Mercer 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 Power Co | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.56 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Grove City - (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 ÷ 48,402 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county