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2020 Adams County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Adams County, PA went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1889th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 23, 2020 18:00 | May 23, 2020 20:00 | 2h | 2,655 | 4,074 |
| 2 | November 15, 2020 22:15 | November 17, 2020 11:15 | 1d 13h | 2,441 | 6,502 |
| 3 | January 8, 2020 12:15 | January 8, 2020 20:30 | 8h 15m | 2,265 | 4,216 |
| 4 | March 30, 2020 17:00 | March 30, 2020 19:45 | 2h 45m | 1,710 | 438 |
| 5 | April 9, 2020 16:00 | April 11, 2020 17:15 | 2d 1h | 1,468 | 5,638 |
| 6 | March 13, 2020 20:45 | March 13, 2020 23:30 | 2h 45m | 1,287 | 3,537 |
| 7 | December 24, 2020 22:15 | December 24, 2020 23:30 | 1h 15m | 1,223 | 310 |
| 8 | June 10, 2020 18:45 | June 11, 2020 06:30 | 11h 45m | 1,088 | 6,881 |
| 9 | July 3, 2020 20:15 | July 4, 2020 01:30 | 5h 15m | 1,085 | 4,870 |
| 10 | July 22, 2020 13:45 | July 23, 2020 23:15 | 1d 9h | 1,083 | 5,163 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 53 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2020 | 6.6 hrs | 1.65 | 2.4 hrs | 1.14 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 98% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,102 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, PA annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/pennsylvania/adams-county