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2019 Berks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Berks County, PA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 751K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1494th 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 Berks 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 | October 16, 2019 11:45 | October 19, 2019 03:30 | 2d 15h | 7,747 | 39K |
| 2 | May 19, 2019 08:30 | May 24, 2019 03:30 | 4d 19h | 7,559 | 67K |
| 3 | May 29, 2019 18:45 | June 1, 2019 08:00 | 2d 13h | 5,259 | 49K |
| 4 | February 25, 2019 00:45 | February 28, 2019 02:00 | 3d 1h | 4,480 | 55K |
| 5 | December 17, 2019 07:00 | December 19, 2019 07:30 | 2d | 3,726 | 23K |
| 6 | October 31, 2019 10:00 | November 3, 2019 07:00 | 2d 21h | 3,668 | 49K |
| 7 | March 4, 2019 01:00 | March 5, 2019 20:15 | 1d 19h | 3,484 | 30K |
| 8 | November 11, 2019 12:15 | November 12, 2019 02:45 | 14h 30m | 3,196 | 1,452 |
| 9 | November 23, 2019 14:45 | November 24, 2019 21:45 | 1d 7h | 3,159 | 2,350 |
| 10 | December 28, 2019 23:30 | December 29, 2019 07:15 | 7h 45m | 3,048 | 1,448 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 165 reached 100+ customers, 48 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 Berks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2018 | 6.6 hrs | 1.05 | 81 min | 0.73 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2018 | 22.6 hrs | 2.00 | 2.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Kutztown - (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 96% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 219,087 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. Berks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berks 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/berks-county