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2019 Northampton County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Northampton County, PA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 342K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2008th 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 Northampton 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 23:30 | December 22, 2019 00:00 | 1d | 23,550 | 34K |
| 2 | November 13, 2019 05:45 | November 13, 2019 06:45 | 1h | 10,689 | 5,468 |
| 3 | June 23, 2019 18:30 | June 24, 2019 08:00 | 13h 30m | 8,106 | 15K |
| 4 | January 7, 2019 11:45 | January 7, 2019 20:00 | 8h 15m | 4,883 | 2,536 |
| 5 | January 20, 2019 06:00 | January 21, 2019 22:00 | 1d 16h | 4,767 | 14K |
| 6 | October 31, 2019 11:00 | November 3, 2019 00:15 | 2d 13h | 4,712 | 25K |
| 7 | January 6, 2019 19:00 | January 6, 2019 21:00 | 2h | 3,896 | 1,452 |
| 8 | November 11, 2019 09:45 | November 11, 2019 21:00 | 11h 15m | 3,762 | 1,100 |
| 9 | June 17, 2019 11:00 | June 17, 2019 19:45 | 8h 45m | 3,668 | 1,364 |
| 10 | October 1, 2019 14:00 | October 1, 2019 15:45 | 1h 45m | 3,663 | 1,623 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 146 reached 100+ customers, 37 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Northampton 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 ÷ 161,848 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county