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2019 Washington County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Washington County, PA went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 902K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 709th 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 Washington 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 | February 24, 2019 14:15 | March 3, 2019 00:15 | 6d 10h | 17,378 | 554K |
| 2 | March 20, 2019 11:15 | March 20, 2019 15:30 | 4h 15m | 3,820 | 8,601 |
| 3 | October 3, 2019 12:45 | October 3, 2019 23:00 | 10h 15m | 2,746 | 756 |
| 4 | July 5, 2019 18:30 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 2d 7h | 2,698 | 8,903 |
| 5 | November 27, 2019 18:45 | November 29, 2019 01:30 | 1d 6h | 2,346 | 24K |
| 6 | June 19, 2019 23:30 | June 22, 2019 02:00 | 2d 2h | 2,315 | 16K |
| 7 | October 31, 2019 17:45 | November 3, 2019 02:30 | 2d 8h | 2,298 | 33K |
| 8 | November 20, 2019 17:15 | November 21, 2019 07:00 | 13h 45m | 2,236 | 1,766 |
| 9 | June 27, 2019 16:15 | June 29, 2019 23:00 | 2d 6h | 2,180 | 8,392 |
| 10 | August 21, 2019 03:30 | August 21, 2019 20:15 | 16h 45m | 2,146 | 1,763 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 137 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| 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 ÷ 113,196 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county