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2019 Montgomery County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Montgomery County, PA went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 2.0M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 613th 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 Montgomery 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 | October 31, 2019 05:15 | November 7, 2019 03:30 | 6d 22h | 43,192 | 778K |
| 2 | May 29, 2019 03:15 | June 8, 2019 08:15 | 10d 5h | 15,691 | 349K |
| 3 | February 24, 2019 02:45 | February 28, 2019 11:45 | 4d 9h | 10,183 | 114K |
| 4 | June 28, 2019 11:30 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 9d 14h | 7,114 | 73K |
| 5 | August 14, 2019 10:45 | August 21, 2019 06:15 | 6d 19h | 6,569 | 25K |
| 6 | July 8, 2019 04:00 | July 14, 2019 06:45 | 6d 2h | 4,902 | 39K |
| 7 | July 14, 2019 11:15 | July 26, 2019 09:45 | 11d 22h | 4,569 | 74K |
| 8 | April 22, 2019 10:45 | May 7, 2019 20:15 | 15d 9h | 4,527 | 46K |
| 9 | March 30, 2019 08:45 | April 1, 2019 01:30 | 1d 16h | 3,969 | 4,656 |
| 10 | February 10, 2019 21:45 | February 15, 2019 11:15 | 4d 13h | 3,813 | 9,351 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 122 reached 100+ customers, 49 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Montgomery 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 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2018 | 10.7 hrs | 1.51 | 88 min | 0.90 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Hatfield- (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Lansdale | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 224,080 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county