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2019 Franklin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Franklin County, PA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 160K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2024th 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 Franklin 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 | May 29, 2019 16:00 | May 31, 2019 19:00 | 2d 3h | 5,525 | 16K |
| 2 | May 7, 2019 13:30 | May 7, 2019 16:15 | 2h 45m | 3,737 | 2,378 |
| 3 | February 24, 2019 21:30 | March 1, 2019 05:45 | 4d 8h | 2,610 | 22K |
| 4 | January 22, 2019 11:45 | January 22, 2019 21:45 | 10h | 2,597 | 4,596 |
| 5 | October 28, 2019 13:30 | October 28, 2019 19:45 | 6h 15m | 2,563 | 2,958 |
| 6 | February 2, 2019 07:45 | February 2, 2019 12:00 | 4h 15m | 2,496 | 3,234 |
| 7 | October 17, 2019 00:30 | October 18, 2019 20:45 | 1d 20h | 2,304 | 4,712 |
| 8 | October 30, 2019 12:00 | October 30, 2019 17:00 | 5h | 1,765 | 1,379 |
| 9 | September 25, 2019 19:15 | September 25, 2019 22:45 | 3h 30m | 1,614 | 1,221 |
| 10 | October 24, 2019 15:30 | October 25, 2019 00:15 | 8h 45m | 1,612 | 446 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 76 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Franklin 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 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| Borough of Chambersburg | 2018 | 31 min | 0.28 | 31 min | 0.28 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mont Alto Borough | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 76,806 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county