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2020 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1662nd 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 Columbia 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 7, 2020 18:30 | February 7, 2020 20:00 | 1h 30m | 6,090 | 1,526 |
| 2 | October 26, 2020 14:45 | October 26, 2020 18:00 | 3h 15m | 2,545 | 650 |
| 3 | July 3, 2020 20:30 | July 4, 2020 16:45 | 20h 15m | 2,519 | 11K |
| 4 | August 27, 2020 18:00 | August 29, 2020 06:15 | 1d 12h | 2,477 | 3,320 |
| 5 | November 15, 2020 11:30 | November 17, 2020 23:15 | 2d 11h | 2,353 | 21K |
| 6 | May 31, 2020 21:00 | May 31, 2020 21:15 | 15m | 1,884 | 471 |
| 7 | November 11, 2020 16:30 | November 12, 2020 04:00 | 11h 30m | 1,787 | 1,083 |
| 8 | December 25, 2020 00:45 | December 26, 2020 02:45 | 1d 2h | 1,501 | 3,703 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 07:30 | April 14, 2020 17:30 | 1d 10h | 1,489 | 13K |
| 10 | April 9, 2020 14:00 | April 10, 2020 04:45 | 14h 45m | 1,342 | 8,201 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 75 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Columbia 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 Catawissa | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,125 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county