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2018 Somerset County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Somerset County, PA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1385th 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 Somerset 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 28, 2018 19:00 | May 28, 2018 23:00 | 4h | 6,593 | 2,834 |
| 2 | April 12, 2018 18:30 | April 12, 2018 20:45 | 2h 15m | 3,379 | 1,856 |
| 3 | February 20, 2018 16:30 | February 20, 2018 21:15 | 4h 45m | 2,259 | 2,700 |
| 4 | October 11, 2018 14:15 | October 11, 2018 14:45 | 30m | 2,032 | 1,016 |
| 5 | September 9, 2018 11:45 | September 11, 2018 17:15 | 2d 5h | 1,966 | 8,035 |
| 6 | June 29, 2018 17:30 | June 30, 2018 03:30 | 10h | 1,899 | 1,305 |
| 7 | May 13, 2018 22:30 | May 15, 2018 16:00 | 1d 17h | 1,513 | 6,574 |
| 8 | April 4, 2018 12:15 | April 5, 2018 18:30 | 1d 6h | 1,439 | 8,008 |
| 9 | August 22, 2018 10:15 | August 22, 2018 20:00 | 9h 45m | 1,405 | 5,367 |
| 10 | August 24, 2018 18:15 | August 24, 2018 18:45 | 30m | 1,259 | 630 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 80 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Somerset 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Berlin - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hooversville Boro Elec Lgt 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 ÷ 34,025 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county