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2019 Luzerne County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Luzerne County, PA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 236K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2312th 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 Luzerne 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 23, 2019 13:45 | May 23, 2019 14:30 | 45m | 8,140 | 3,350 |
| 2 | July 22, 2019 10:45 | July 22, 2019 19:30 | 8h 45m | 7,244 | 1,955 |
| 3 | December 2, 2019 20:15 | December 3, 2019 14:15 | 18h | 3,816 | 4,167 |
| 4 | December 9, 2019 17:45 | December 9, 2019 23:45 | 6h | 3,737 | 2,302 |
| 5 | May 29, 2019 18:45 | May 30, 2019 09:30 | 14h 45m | 3,434 | 8,042 |
| 6 | August 15, 2019 13:15 | August 16, 2019 18:30 | 1d 5h | 3,197 | 6,831 |
| 7 | December 22, 2019 15:15 | December 22, 2019 18:15 | 3h | 3,156 | 6,136 |
| 8 | October 31, 2019 18:00 | November 3, 2019 08:30 | 2d 14h | 3,002 | 44K |
| 9 | August 6, 2019 17:45 | August 6, 2019 19:15 | 1h 30m | 2,983 | 1,122 |
| 10 | May 17, 2019 13:30 | May 17, 2019 18:15 | 4h 45m | 2,885 | 976 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 107 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Luzerne 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 |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.20 | 3.6 hrs | 1.20 |
| Claverack 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 ÷ 164,504 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. Luzerne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luzerne 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/luzerne-county