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2019 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 410K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 464th 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 Columbia 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 | April 15, 2019 05:15 | April 18, 2019 20:00 | 3d 14h | 10,278 | 243K |
| 2 | December 20, 2019 14:30 | December 20, 2019 14:45 | 15m | 4,828 | 1,207 |
| 3 | August 6, 2019 22:15 | August 7, 2019 19:15 | 21h | 3,956 | 4,453 |
| 4 | October 31, 2019 17:30 | November 3, 2019 10:30 | 2d 17h | 2,801 | 36K |
| 5 | September 15, 2019 23:00 | September 16, 2019 00:00 | 1h | 2,712 | 1,184 |
| 6 | December 14, 2019 13:00 | December 14, 2019 20:45 | 7h 45m | 2,329 | 1,348 |
| 7 | October 11, 2019 00:30 | October 11, 2019 00:45 | 15m | 1,950 | 488 |
| 8 | June 29, 2019 18:00 | June 30, 2019 08:45 | 14h 45m | 1,713 | 2,846 |
| 9 | July 20, 2019 02:00 | July 20, 2019 10:15 | 8h 15m | 1,626 | 2,912 |
| 10 | July 31, 2019 11:15 | August 1, 2019 07:00 | 19h 45m | 1,425 | 3,474 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 99 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Columbia 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 |
| Borough of Catawissa | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,125 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county