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2019 Lancaster County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lancaster County, PA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 326K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2027th 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 Lancaster 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 | August 2, 2019 16:45 | August 2, 2019 17:00 | 15m | 6,597 | 1,649 |
| 2 | June 28, 2019 19:15 | July 1, 2019 01:45 | 2d 6h | 5,770 | 19K |
| 3 | May 28, 2019 21:15 | May 31, 2019 07:30 | 2d 10h | 4,596 | 18K |
| 4 | July 9, 2019 02:45 | July 10, 2019 07:30 | 1d 4h | 4,520 | 6,522 |
| 5 | May 31, 2019 12:15 | May 31, 2019 18:30 | 6h 15m | 4,131 | 1,257 |
| 6 | October 7, 2019 13:00 | October 8, 2019 22:45 | 1d 9h | 3,597 | 2,379 |
| 7 | October 31, 2019 16:45 | November 2, 2019 19:30 | 2d 2h | 3,550 | 22K |
| 8 | February 21, 2019 14:00 | February 21, 2019 20:30 | 6h 30m | 3,500 | 1,387 |
| 9 | August 3, 2019 07:00 | August 3, 2019 14:30 | 7h 30m | 3,385 | 3,946 |
| 10 | July 16, 2019 20:00 | July 17, 2019 07:15 | 11h 15m | 3,146 | 4,394 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 191 reached 100+ customers, 46 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 Lancaster 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 Ephrata - (PA) | 2018 | 35 min | 0.53 | 35 min | 0.53 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 156,892 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county