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2019 Blair County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Blair County, PA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 323K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1167th 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 Blair 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 | August 2, 2019 18:30 | August 3, 2019 23:30 | 1d 5h | 9,122 | 24K |
| 2 | April 8, 2019 10:30 | April 8, 2019 22:15 | 11h 45m | 7,881 | 18K |
| 3 | March 5, 2019 11:45 | March 5, 2019 23:00 | 11h 15m | 6,758 | 4,454 |
| 4 | August 18, 2019 20:45 | August 20, 2019 02:15 | 1d 5h | 4,073 | 30K |
| 5 | May 29, 2019 17:15 | May 30, 2019 18:00 | 1d | 3,353 | 3,051 |
| 6 | August 15, 2019 21:45 | August 16, 2019 23:30 | 1d 1h | 3,223 | 15K |
| 7 | January 1, 2019 09:30 | January 2, 2019 23:15 | 1d 13h | 2,448 | 12K |
| 8 | September 10, 2019 21:00 | September 11, 2019 07:00 | 10h | 2,352 | 5,718 |
| 9 | September 20, 2019 10:30 | September 20, 2019 12:30 | 2h | 2,151 | 4,302 |
| 10 | March 27, 2019 21:00 | March 27, 2019 23:15 | 2h 15m | 2,150 | 4,577 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 93 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Blair 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop 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 ÷ 69,598 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. Blair County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blair 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/blair-county