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2018 Washington County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Washington County, PA went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 471K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1220th 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 Washington 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 | October 20, 2018 02:15 | October 22, 2018 02:00 | 1d 23h | 4,315 | 15K |
| 2 | November 15, 2018 18:15 | November 21, 2018 00:15 | 5d 6h | 3,711 | 47K |
| 3 | September 8, 2018 04:30 | September 12, 2018 01:00 | 3d 20h | 3,179 | 32K |
| 4 | January 23, 2018 06:15 | January 24, 2018 17:15 | 1d 11h | 2,672 | 9,413 |
| 5 | July 15, 2018 08:45 | July 17, 2018 07:30 | 1d 22h | 2,462 | 25K |
| 6 | August 12, 2018 21:45 | August 14, 2018 16:45 | 1d 19h | 2,363 | 11K |
| 7 | July 4, 2018 21:45 | July 7, 2018 02:45 | 2d 5h | 2,202 | 10K |
| 8 | May 25, 2018 22:30 | May 31, 2018 09:15 | 5d 10h | 2,179 | 10K |
| 9 | April 23, 2018 11:15 | April 24, 2018 00:15 | 13h | 2,150 | 6,706 |
| 10 | December 27, 2018 16:45 | December 27, 2018 17:45 | 1h | 2,102 | 2,101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 143 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric 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 ÷ 113,196 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county