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2018 Union County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Union County, PA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1947th 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 Union 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 15, 2018 18:45 | May 17, 2018 01:30 | 1d 6h | 2,002 | 7,339 |
| 2 | January 4, 2018 00:00 | January 4, 2018 07:45 | 7h 45m | 1,549 | 7,805 |
| 3 | January 4, 2018 09:30 | January 4, 2018 10:15 | 45m | 1,502 | 909 |
| 4 | May 22, 2018 20:30 | May 23, 2018 07:15 | 10h 45m | 1,489 | 3,080 |
| 5 | August 21, 2018 08:00 | August 21, 2018 08:15 | 15m | 1,109 | 277 |
| 6 | March 2, 2018 10:45 | March 5, 2018 19:15 | 3d 8h | 994 | 12K |
| 7 | July 15, 2018 13:00 | July 16, 2018 01:15 | 12h 15m | 832 | 1,568 |
| 8 | September 8, 2018 21:45 | September 8, 2018 23:00 | 1h 15m | 829 | 208 |
| 9 | April 4, 2018 15:30 | April 5, 2018 18:30 | 1d 3h | 810 | 3,659 |
| 10 | July 16, 2018 20:00 | July 17, 2018 03:45 | 7h 45m | 445 | 935 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 20 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Union 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 Mifflinburg - (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 ÷ 28,701 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county