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2019 Northumberland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Northumberland County, PA went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 236K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1078th 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 Northumberland 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 13:00 | November 3, 2019 01:15 | 2d 12h | 13,054 | 45K |
| 2 | April 14, 2019 19:15 | April 17, 2019 15:45 | 2d 20h | 9,990 | 69K |
| 3 | April 17, 2019 16:30 | April 17, 2019 22:45 | 6h 15m | 9,387 | 2,355 |
| 4 | January 31, 2019 19:00 | January 31, 2019 22:30 | 3h 30m | 8,242 | 2,162 |
| 5 | August 2, 2019 16:30 | August 2, 2019 17:30 | 1h | 7,202 | 1,803 |
| 6 | April 8, 2019 12:45 | April 8, 2019 14:45 | 2h | 3,531 | 892 |
| 7 | June 26, 2019 21:15 | June 27, 2019 09:15 | 12h | 2,392 | 9,303 |
| 8 | June 29, 2019 18:00 | July 1, 2019 03:45 | 1d 9h | 2,110 | 7,763 |
| 9 | August 11, 2019 23:30 | August 12, 2019 00:45 | 1h 15m | 2,001 | 2,501 |
| 10 | May 2, 2019 20:15 | May 2, 2019 20:30 | 15m | 1,941 | 485 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 90 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Northumberland 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 |
| Citizens Electric Co - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Watsontown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 46,261 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. Northumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northumberland 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/northumberland-county