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2018 Westmoreland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Westmoreland County, PA went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 674K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1346th 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 Westmoreland 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 | September 8, 2018 04:30 | September 13, 2018 05:15 | 5d | 7,058 | 117K |
| 2 | April 4, 2018 00:15 | April 5, 2018 23:30 | 1d 23h | 4,855 | 27K |
| 3 | October 10, 2018 10:30 | October 10, 2018 21:30 | 11h | 4,539 | 3,651 |
| 4 | October 12, 2018 21:00 | October 12, 2018 22:45 | 1h 45m | 4,475 | 2,241 |
| 5 | October 5, 2018 23:15 | October 8, 2018 04:45 | 2d 5h | 3,626 | 40K |
| 6 | November 15, 2018 15:00 | November 21, 2018 19:00 | 6d 4h | 3,268 | 60K |
| 7 | July 1, 2018 09:30 | July 6, 2018 03:45 | 4d 18h | 3,120 | 23K |
| 8 | March 2, 2018 02:15 | March 5, 2018 01:15 | 2d 23h | 2,856 | 23K |
| 9 | February 15, 2018 22:00 | February 18, 2018 21:15 | 2d 23h | 2,820 | 5,223 |
| 10 | January 13, 2018 07:30 | January 14, 2018 08:45 | 1d 1h | 2,492 | 24K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 174 reached 100+ customers, 51 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 Westmoreland 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duquesne Light 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 ÷ 188,408 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. Westmoreland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Westmoreland 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/westmoreland-county