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2019 Union County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Union County, PA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1601st 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 Union 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 | April 15, 2019 04:00 | April 17, 2019 20:30 | 2d 16h | 3,778 | 24K |
| 2 | December 1, 2019 16:30 | December 2, 2019 07:00 | 14h 30m | 2,829 | 20K |
| 3 | April 8, 2019 12:45 | April 8, 2019 14:30 | 1h 45m | 1,685 | 448 |
| 4 | October 27, 2019 10:30 | October 27, 2019 19:45 | 9h 15m | 1,477 | 12K |
| 5 | May 29, 2019 20:15 | May 31, 2019 20:15 | 2d | 667 | 8,930 |
| 6 | October 31, 2019 22:30 | November 3, 2019 02:00 | 2d 3h | 570 | 6,737 |
| 7 | February 26, 2019 00:15 | February 27, 2019 02:30 | 1d 2h | 546 | 707 |
| 8 | April 3, 2019 17:30 | April 3, 2019 23:30 | 6h | 545 | 441 |
| 9 | February 24, 2019 22:15 | February 25, 2019 12:00 | 13h 45m | 519 | 3,384 |
| 10 | April 27, 2019 16:30 | April 27, 2019 23:45 | 7h 15m | 464 | 1,299 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 19 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Union 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 Mifflinburg - (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 ÷ 28,701 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county