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2018 Northampton County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Northampton County, PA went without power for an average of 14.6 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 380th 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 Northampton 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 09:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 15h | 45,620 | 1.8M |
| 2 | May 15, 2018 15:00 | May 20, 2018 21:30 | 5d 6h | 16,819 | 143K |
| 3 | April 24, 2018 18:15 | April 24, 2018 19:30 | 1h 15m | 13,238 | 6,866 |
| 4 | October 25, 2018 13:45 | October 25, 2018 23:00 | 9h 15m | 11,303 | 3,838 |
| 5 | June 28, 2018 05:45 | June 29, 2018 11:30 | 1d 5h | 8,408 | 14K |
| 6 | January 12, 2018 09:45 | January 12, 2018 20:00 | 10h 15m | 6,915 | 7,764 |
| 7 | November 2, 2018 12:45 | November 4, 2018 03:00 | 1d 14h | 4,595 | 8,352 |
| 8 | July 25, 2018 01:30 | July 26, 2018 04:45 | 1d 3h | 4,414 | 8,087 |
| 9 | September 6, 2018 21:15 | September 7, 2018 23:30 | 1d 2h | 4,164 | 6,058 |
| 10 | January 4, 2018 13:45 | January 5, 2018 06:00 | 16h 15m | 3,764 | 2,398 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 172 reached 100+ customers, 49 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Northampton 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 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2018 | 22.6 hrs | 2.00 | 2.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| 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 ÷ 161,848 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county