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2019 Dauphin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Dauphin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 253K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2313th 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 Dauphin 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 | July 6, 2019 20:00 | July 7, 2019 17:15 | 21h 15m | 5,956 | 18K |
| 2 | March 1, 2019 17:00 | March 1, 2019 17:15 | 15m | 4,433 | 1,108 |
| 3 | October 31, 2019 18:15 | November 3, 2019 02:15 | 2d 8h | 4,007 | 44K |
| 4 | May 28, 2019 06:30 | May 28, 2019 08:00 | 1h 30m | 3,268 | 2,579 |
| 5 | June 29, 2019 11:15 | July 2, 2019 01:30 | 2d 14h | 2,889 | 7,852 |
| 6 | November 28, 2019 01:30 | November 29, 2019 22:00 | 1d 20h | 2,779 | 11K |
| 7 | March 21, 2019 14:30 | March 21, 2019 16:45 | 2h 15m | 2,031 | 528 |
| 8 | February 24, 2019 22:30 | February 27, 2019 05:15 | 2d 6h | 1,959 | 14K |
| 9 | January 21, 2019 08:30 | January 21, 2019 11:15 | 2h 45m | 1,705 | 2,918 |
| 10 | September 3, 2019 14:15 | September 3, 2019 16:00 | 1h 45m | 1,657 | 484 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 109 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 Dauphin 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 Middletown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Royalton - (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 ÷ 176,757 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. Dauphin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dauphin 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/dauphin-county