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2019 Lehigh County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lehigh County, PA went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 316K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2287th 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 Lehigh 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 | December 20, 2019 12:15 | December 20, 2019 15:15 | 3h | 7,709 | 3,027 |
| 2 | September 23, 2019 18:15 | September 24, 2019 08:15 | 14h | 5,093 | 1,495 |
| 3 | October 16, 2019 18:15 | October 18, 2019 08:30 | 1d 14h | 5,033 | 21K |
| 4 | December 4, 2019 16:30 | December 4, 2019 16:45 | 15m | 4,790 | 1,198 |
| 5 | October 31, 2019 09:45 | November 3, 2019 02:15 | 2d 16h | 4,428 | 27K |
| 6 | July 22, 2019 00:00 | July 24, 2019 00:30 | 2d | 4,401 | 27K |
| 7 | October 9, 2019 14:30 | October 10, 2019 05:15 | 14h 45m | 4,314 | 3,284 |
| 8 | December 12, 2019 13:30 | December 12, 2019 17:30 | 4h | 4,287 | 1,104 |
| 9 | December 17, 2019 06:45 | December 17, 2019 13:30 | 6h 45m | 4,207 | 6,741 |
| 10 | September 23, 2019 09:30 | September 23, 2019 17:30 | 8h | 4,180 | 2,842 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 180 reached 100+ customers, 48 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 Lehigh 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 212,008 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. Lehigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lehigh 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/lehigh-county