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County annual report · FIPS 42089

2018 Monroe County, PA Power Outage Report

In 2018, customers in Monroe County, PA went without power for an average of 59.1 hours, a total of 5.1M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 104th of 2,798 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
59.1
85,900 customers
Customer-hours out
5.1M
Peak customers out
46,392
Outages ≥1,000 out
35
3 of 10,000+ · 887 total
Longest outage
7d 18h
began March 6, 2018
Rank in state
2nd/67
104th of 2,798 US

Compared with PA, the US and 2017

Monroe County, PA average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2018Monroe County 59.1 hours, Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours, US average 5.6 hours, Monroe County, 2017 3.3 hoursMonroe CountyMonroe County59.1hPennsylvania averagePennsylvania average8.3hUS averageUS average5.6hMonroe County, 2017Monroe County, 20173.3h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2018; last bar is this county in 2017.

Month by month

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Monroe County, PA customer-hours without power by month, 2018Jan 31K, Feb 9,592, Mar 3.5M, Apr 53K, May 1.3M, Jun 46K, Jul 38K, Aug 20K, Sep 20K, Oct 23K, Nov 17K, Dec 24K01M2M3M4M31KJan9,592Feb3.5MMar53KApr1.3MMay46KJun38KJul20KAug20KSep23KOct17KNov24KDec
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Customer-hours; March was the worst month.

Monroe County year over year

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Monroe County, PA: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 2.7h; 2016: 3.9h; 2017: 3.3h; 2018: 59.1h, coverage 95%; 2019: 7.2h, coverage 96%; 2020: 5.6h, coverage 98%; 2021: 6.6h, coverage 98%; 2022: 5.9h, coverage 98%; 2023: 8.5h; 2024: 15.3h; 2025: 8.1h02040600%50%100%2.7h20153.9h20163.3h201759.1h20187.2h20195.6h20206.6h20215.9h20228.5h202315.3h20248.1h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Monroe County, 2018

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1March 2, 2018 05:30March 6, 2018 01:003d 19h46,3922.8M
2May 15, 2018 17:00May 21, 2018 04:155d 11h37,1091.2M
3March 6, 2018 03:15March 13, 2018 21:307d 18h19,493727K
4October 25, 2018 18:00October 25, 2018 21:303h 30m4,0701,877
5April 22, 2018 19:45April 22, 2018 20:0015m4,0671,017
6April 2, 2018 09:30April 2, 2018 22:4513h 15m3,9144,236
7March 19, 2018 02:15March 19, 2018 05:453h 30m3,89613K
8January 13, 2018 00:15January 14, 2018 04:451d 4h2,79317K
9April 4, 2018 17:00April 6, 2018 02:451d 9h2,75727K
10June 17, 2018 21:45June 19, 2018 20:301d 22h2,66330K

Outage episodes by size in 2018: 167 reached 100+ customers, 35 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Monroe County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
PPL Electric Utilities Corp20186.6 hrs1.0581 min0.73
Metropolitan Edison Co201822.6 hrs2.002.7 hrs1.22
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 ÷ 85,900 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county

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