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2018 Philadelphia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Philadelphia County, PA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1615th 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 Philadelphia 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 | February 23, 2018 13:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 10d 11h | 32,117 | 726K |
| 2 | September 2, 2018 03:45 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 12d 18h | 8,023 | 75K |
| 3 | July 21, 2018 21:15 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 27d 13h | 7,836 | 118K |
| 4 | July 1, 2018 13:45 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 17d 9h | 6,722 | 92K |
| 5 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 18, 2018 00:30 | 11d 21h | 6,515 | 175K |
| 6 | April 14, 2018 22:00 | April 21, 2018 02:15 | 6d 4h | 4,921 | 34K |
| 7 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | July 1, 2018 07:45 | 36d 21h | 4,739 | 124K |
| 8 | October 8, 2018 10:45 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 33d 1h | 4,263 | 122K |
| 9 | January 1, 2018 00:00 | January 25, 2018 14:30 | 24d 14h | 4,157 | 129K |
| 10 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | October 8, 2018 09:15 | 23d 5h | 4,136 | 86K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 27 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Philadelphia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PECO Energy Co | 2018 | 10.7 hrs | 1.51 | 88 min | 0.90 |
| Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 802,812 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. Philadelphia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Philadelphia 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/philadelphia-county