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2018 Potter County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Potter County, PA went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 816th 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 Potter 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 7, 2018 00:45 | February 7, 2018 04:15 | 3h 30m | 2,763 | 3,428 |
| 2 | September 25, 2018 20:15 | September 25, 2018 20:45 | 30m | 1,020 | 510 |
| 3 | July 4, 2018 13:00 | July 5, 2018 04:00 | 15h | 959 | 1,656 |
| 4 | May 4, 2018 22:15 | May 6, 2018 00:30 | 1d 2h | 871 | 17K |
| 5 | July 30, 2018 19:00 | July 31, 2018 12:15 | 17h 15m | 795 | 12K |
| 6 | March 24, 2018 11:15 | March 24, 2018 16:45 | 5h 30m | 774 | 1,796 |
| 7 | April 4, 2018 08:15 | April 4, 2018 10:00 | 1h 45m | 773 | 1,353 |
| 8 | December 1, 2018 14:00 | December 1, 2018 20:30 | 6h 30m | 750 | 3,942 |
| 9 | November 5, 2018 16:15 | November 6, 2018 03:00 | 10h 45m | 635 | 2,316 |
| 10 | March 2, 2018 07:15 | March 3, 2018 20:30 | 1d 13h | 407 | 5,603 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 25 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Potter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.12 | 3.6 hrs | 1.86 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (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 ÷ 9,352 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county