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2019 Centre County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Centre County, PA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 264K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1746th 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 Centre 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 31, 2019 21:30 | November 2, 2019 22:45 | 2d 1h | 3,962 | 43K |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 13:00 | February 28, 2019 05:45 | 3d 16h | 3,721 | 50K |
| 3 | May 19, 2019 18:45 | May 20, 2019 22:00 | 1d 3h | 3,438 | 3,743 |
| 4 | November 17, 2019 12:00 | November 17, 2019 21:45 | 9h 45m | 2,770 | 24K |
| 5 | March 31, 2019 21:30 | April 1, 2019 04:15 | 6h 45m | 2,736 | 4,285 |
| 6 | August 24, 2019 06:30 | August 24, 2019 10:15 | 3h 45m | 2,587 | 6,554 |
| 7 | August 18, 2019 19:30 | August 19, 2019 23:15 | 1d 3h | 2,318 | 8,235 |
| 8 | August 21, 2019 05:30 | August 21, 2019 15:30 | 10h | 2,186 | 6,772 |
| 9 | January 1, 2019 05:30 | January 2, 2019 01:15 | 19h 45m | 2,038 | 5,818 |
| 10 | July 29, 2019 13:30 | July 29, 2019 23:15 | 9h 45m | 1,961 | 1,147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 103 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Centre 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric 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 ÷ 96,428 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. Centre County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Centre 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/centre-county