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2019 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 317K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1139th 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 Fayette 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 15:30 | March 2, 2019 20:45 | 6d 5h | 4,912 | 148K |
| 2 | December 29, 2019 17:00 | December 29, 2019 18:45 | 1h 45m | 3,205 | 5,223 |
| 3 | November 30, 2019 10:15 | November 30, 2019 11:00 | 45m | 2,415 | 1,811 |
| 4 | December 7, 2019 10:15 | December 7, 2019 10:45 | 30m | 2,414 | 1,207 |
| 5 | August 7, 2019 01:45 | August 7, 2019 22:45 | 21h | 2,127 | 5,240 |
| 6 | June 30, 2019 00:00 | June 30, 2019 22:00 | 22h | 2,121 | 6,162 |
| 7 | September 25, 2019 18:30 | September 25, 2019 20:30 | 2h | 1,804 | 1,358 |
| 8 | July 21, 2019 18:30 | July 22, 2019 23:45 | 1d 5h | 1,797 | 3,161 |
| 9 | September 1, 2019 16:45 | September 2, 2019 18:45 | 1d 2h | 1,761 | 5,550 |
| 10 | December 1, 2019 18:00 | December 1, 2019 21:45 | 3h 45m | 1,616 | 2,742 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 90 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec 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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county