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2019 Westmoreland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Westmoreland County, PA went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 772nd 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 Westmoreland 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 07:45 | March 2, 2019 08:30 | 6d | 24,482 | 801K |
| 2 | October 31, 2019 08:00 | November 3, 2019 01:15 | 2d 17h | 5,311 | 39K |
| 3 | May 9, 2019 11:45 | May 11, 2019 03:30 | 1d 15h | 4,666 | 9,102 |
| 4 | April 17, 2019 12:30 | April 18, 2019 05:00 | 16h 30m | 4,166 | 3,254 |
| 5 | May 28, 2019 06:45 | May 31, 2019 10:45 | 3d 4h | 3,295 | 31K |
| 6 | December 18, 2019 12:00 | December 18, 2019 22:45 | 10h 45m | 3,140 | 3,182 |
| 7 | September 10, 2019 11:45 | September 10, 2019 17:30 | 5h 45m | 3,132 | 1,873 |
| 8 | November 29, 2019 12:30 | November 30, 2019 01:30 | 13h | 3,033 | 11K |
| 9 | July 20, 2019 19:30 | July 24, 2019 03:45 | 3d 8h | 2,888 | 22K |
| 10 | March 26, 2019 22:15 | March 26, 2019 23:30 | 1h 15m | 2,770 | 2,581 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 205 reached 100+ customers, 66 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 Westmoreland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.12 | 3.6 hrs | 1.86 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duquesne Light 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 ÷ 188,408 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. Westmoreland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Westmoreland 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/westmoreland-county