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2019 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 574K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1474th 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 Erie 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 | February 24, 2019 01:15 | February 28, 2019 05:15 | 4d 4h | 17,664 | 114K |
| 2 | April 23, 2019 19:45 | April 23, 2019 21:30 | 1h 45m | 13,893 | 7,939 |
| 3 | August 26, 2019 22:30 | August 28, 2019 07:15 | 1d 8h | 13,601 | 29K |
| 4 | February 12, 2019 12:15 | February 14, 2019 01:45 | 1d 13h | 7,220 | 14K |
| 5 | March 27, 2019 13:15 | March 27, 2019 23:45 | 10h 30m | 7,198 | 6,508 |
| 6 | October 3, 2019 10:30 | October 4, 2019 03:15 | 16h 45m | 7,161 | 7,826 |
| 7 | May 22, 2019 15:30 | May 22, 2019 23:00 | 7h 30m | 6,671 | 3,470 |
| 8 | June 10, 2019 13:15 | June 12, 2019 00:45 | 1d 11h | 6,425 | 29K |
| 9 | April 6, 2019 16:00 | April 7, 2019 07:30 | 15h 30m | 4,420 | 8,637 |
| 10 | October 31, 2019 16:15 | November 3, 2019 08:15 | 2d 16h | 4,048 | 46K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 157 reached 100+ customers, 35 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Erie 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county