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2020 Carbon County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Carbon County, PA went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1526th 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 Carbon 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 | June 14, 2020 04:30 | June 14, 2020 04:45 | 15m | 6,815 | 1,704 |
| 2 | August 4, 2020 16:15 | August 6, 2020 04:00 | 1d 11h | 2,732 | 16K |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 15:15 | February 7, 2020 19:45 | 4h 30m | 2,146 | 1,591 |
| 4 | July 22, 2020 11:45 | July 23, 2020 08:15 | 20h 30m | 2,002 | 6,043 |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 18:30 | November 3, 2020 21:00 | 2d 2h | 1,743 | 20K |
| 6 | November 11, 2020 18:00 | November 11, 2020 19:15 | 1h 15m | 1,706 | 1,286 |
| 7 | April 8, 2020 12:30 | April 8, 2020 19:45 | 7h 15m | 1,654 | 532 |
| 8 | June 22, 2020 17:30 | June 23, 2020 01:45 | 8h 15m | 1,654 | 603 |
| 9 | December 24, 2020 19:30 | December 27, 2020 02:45 | 2d 7h | 1,647 | 25K |
| 10 | June 19, 2020 23:00 | June 20, 2020 17:45 | 18h 45m | 1,305 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 62 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Carbon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.88 | 69 min | 0.69 |
| Borough of Lehighton - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Weatherly - (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 ÷ 32,206 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. Carbon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carbon 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/carbon-county