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2020 Cambria County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cambria County, PA went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 290K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1524th 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 Cambria 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 | August 27, 2020 20:30 | August 30, 2020 04:00 | 2d 7h | 8,116 | 39K |
| 2 | March 11, 2020 13:30 | March 11, 2020 22:45 | 9h 15m | 6,178 | 2,430 |
| 3 | April 8, 2020 06:00 | April 8, 2020 23:00 | 17h | 4,996 | 10K |
| 4 | March 13, 2020 02:15 | March 14, 2020 04:15 | 1d 2h | 4,569 | 11K |
| 5 | January 12, 2020 08:00 | January 16, 2020 19:45 | 4d 11h | 4,251 | 6,403 |
| 6 | April 27, 2020 04:45 | April 27, 2020 16:45 | 12h | 4,227 | 4,904 |
| 7 | December 24, 2020 12:45 | December 24, 2020 17:00 | 4h 15m | 3,993 | 3,833 |
| 8 | July 27, 2020 13:00 | July 28, 2020 01:00 | 12h | 3,991 | 2,982 |
| 9 | November 15, 2020 19:15 | November 18, 2020 11:30 | 2d 16h | 3,894 | 36K |
| 10 | November 1, 2020 16:15 | November 2, 2020 23:30 | 1d 7h | 3,527 | 8,308 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 129 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Cambria 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of East Conemaugh | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Summerhill - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 66,666 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. Cambria County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cambria 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/cambria-county