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2020 Bedford County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bedford County, PA went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 146K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1328th 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 Bedford 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 | February 21, 2020 14:15 | February 21, 2020 23:45 | 9h 30m | 1,693 | 2,307 |
| 2 | July 11, 2020 00:30 | July 11, 2020 11:15 | 10h 45m | 1,497 | 4,897 |
| 3 | August 27, 2020 23:00 | August 29, 2020 21:45 | 1d 22h | 1,491 | 14K |
| 4 | September 30, 2020 13:00 | October 1, 2020 03:15 | 14h 15m | 1,475 | 18K |
| 5 | November 15, 2020 22:15 | November 17, 2020 23:15 | 2d 1h | 1,432 | 16K |
| 6 | October 20, 2020 13:00 | October 21, 2020 02:00 | 13h | 1,425 | 13K |
| 7 | April 13, 2020 09:15 | April 13, 2020 23:45 | 14h 30m | 1,360 | 2,103 |
| 8 | July 13, 2020 13:30 | July 16, 2020 11:00 | 2d 21h | 1,237 | 9,264 |
| 9 | November 18, 2020 14:00 | November 18, 2020 21:45 | 7h 45m | 1,211 | 8,322 |
| 10 | January 9, 2020 12:15 | January 9, 2020 17:30 | 5h 15m | 932 | 1,075 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 46 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Bedford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 1.91 | 3.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.27 | 2.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Enterprise R E C, 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 ÷ 26,999 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford 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/bedford-county