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2020 Blair County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Blair County, PA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 198K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1934th 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 Blair 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 22, 2020 13:45 | February 23, 2020 00:15 | 10h 30m | 7,296 | 12K |
| 2 | June 10, 2020 11:15 | June 11, 2020 02:30 | 15h 15m | 7,185 | 17K |
| 3 | March 19, 2020 08:45 | March 19, 2020 21:45 | 13h | 4,532 | 3,526 |
| 4 | June 7, 2020 08:00 | June 7, 2020 08:15 | 15m | 4,246 | 1,062 |
| 5 | September 10, 2020 07:30 | September 10, 2020 23:45 | 16h 15m | 2,738 | 7,561 |
| 6 | October 12, 2020 12:15 | October 12, 2020 16:30 | 4h 15m | 2,437 | 5,342 |
| 7 | July 7, 2020 01:45 | July 7, 2020 19:15 | 17h 30m | 2,320 | 18K |
| 8 | July 10, 2020 08:45 | July 10, 2020 19:30 | 10h 45m | 2,145 | 11K |
| 9 | January 4, 2020 13:45 | January 5, 2020 00:15 | 10h 30m | 2,138 | 6,093 |
| 10 | April 21, 2020 16:45 | April 22, 2020 04:15 | 11h 30m | 1,978 | 2,167 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 74 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Blair 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop 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 ÷ 69,598 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. Blair County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blair 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/blair-county