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2018 Northumberland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Northumberland County, PA went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 201K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1170th 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 Northumberland 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 | May 23, 2018 03:30 | May 23, 2018 04:45 | 1h 15m | 10,690 | 2,677 |
| 2 | May 15, 2018 16:45 | May 18, 2018 23:30 | 3d 6h | 6,648 | 47K |
| 3 | April 4, 2018 16:00 | April 5, 2018 21:30 | 1d 5h | 3,860 | 4,124 |
| 4 | September 11, 2018 10:00 | September 11, 2018 18:15 | 8h 15m | 3,674 | 2,109 |
| 5 | September 25, 2018 06:15 | September 25, 2018 06:30 | 15m | 3,536 | 884 |
| 6 | August 7, 2018 18:15 | August 8, 2018 18:45 | 1d | 3,313 | 4,901 |
| 7 | May 24, 2018 14:30 | May 24, 2018 18:30 | 4h | 3,265 | 4,998 |
| 8 | January 8, 2018 05:30 | January 8, 2018 10:45 | 5h 15m | 3,245 | 950 |
| 9 | January 12, 2018 04:30 | January 12, 2018 05:00 | 30m | 3,242 | 820 |
| 10 | November 13, 2018 23:00 | November 14, 2018 02:30 | 3h 30m | 2,299 | 729 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 74 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Northumberland 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 |
| Citizens Electric Co - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Watsontown - (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 ÷ 46,261 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. Northumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northumberland 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/northumberland-county