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2019 Bedford County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Bedford County, PA went without power for an average of 8.8 hours, a total of 238K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 627th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bedford County, 2019
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 24, 2019 21:00 | March 1, 2019 17:30 | 4d 20h | 3,937 | 68K |
| 2 | January 20, 2019 01:15 | January 21, 2019 08:30 | 1d 7h | 2,911 | 34K |
| 3 | December 17, 2019 01:30 | December 19, 2019 04:45 | 2d 3h | 2,479 | 25K |
| 4 | October 20, 2019 03:00 | October 20, 2019 05:00 | 2h | 2,207 | 4,174 |
| 5 | November 25, 2019 20:30 | November 25, 2019 21:45 | 1h 15m | 2,048 | 2,231 |
| 6 | September 8, 2019 08:30 | September 8, 2019 10:30 | 2h | 1,902 | 3,006 |
| 7 | June 3, 2019 05:45 | June 3, 2019 23:15 | 17h 30m | 1,710 | 19K |
| 8 | April 14, 2019 19:15 | April 16, 2019 21:45 | 2d 2h | 1,535 | 2,401 |
| 9 | January 4, 2019 13:00 | January 4, 2019 17:15 | 4h 15m | 1,498 | 2,261 |
| 10 | January 10, 2019 11:15 | January 10, 2019 16:30 | 5h 15m | 1,498 | 627 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 57 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Bedford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Enterprise R E C, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 96% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 26,999 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford County, PA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/pennsylvania/bedford-county