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2018 Pike County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pike County, PA went without power for an average of 199.5 hours, a total of 3.9M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 24th 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 Pike 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 13:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 12h | 26,915 | 1.9M |
| 2 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 14, 2018 02:00 | 7d 22h | 20,536 | 1.4M |
| 3 | May 15, 2018 19:30 | May 20, 2018 23:45 | 5d 4h | 17,383 | 378K |
| 4 | September 6, 2018 20:00 | September 7, 2018 21:45 | 1d 1h | 9,669 | 5,253 |
| 5 | March 26, 2018 11:15 | March 26, 2018 22:00 | 10h 45m | 5,782 | 9,184 |
| 6 | January 16, 2018 13:00 | January 16, 2018 19:00 | 6h | 5,089 | 1,505 |
| 7 | April 25, 2018 16:15 | April 25, 2018 21:30 | 5h 15m | 4,518 | 2,312 |
| 8 | May 22, 2018 13:00 | May 23, 2018 01:30 | 12h 30m | 3,375 | 1,050 |
| 9 | March 17, 2018 14:15 | March 18, 2018 02:15 | 12h | 3,233 | 4,074 |
| 10 | February 14, 2018 09:30 | February 14, 2018 19:15 | 9h 45m | 2,584 | 749 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 84 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Pike 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pike County Light & Power 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 ÷ 19,414 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. Pike County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pike 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/pike-county