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2020 Cumberland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cumberland County, PA went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 249K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2361st 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 Cumberland 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 12, 2020 17:00 | August 12, 2020 22:30 | 5h 30m | 7,625 | 8,129 |
| 2 | July 5, 2020 18:45 | July 6, 2020 07:45 | 13h | 6,349 | 8,051 |
| 3 | April 9, 2020 16:00 | April 11, 2020 09:30 | 1d 17h | 5,017 | 43K |
| 4 | April 21, 2020 10:45 | April 21, 2020 11:30 | 45m | 4,708 | 1,183 |
| 5 | May 29, 2020 17:00 | May 30, 2020 01:15 | 8h 15m | 3,939 | 3,006 |
| 6 | October 21, 2020 19:15 | October 22, 2020 05:00 | 9h 45m | 3,466 | 939 |
| 7 | June 10, 2020 19:45 | June 11, 2020 21:15 | 1d 1h | 3,449 | 8,577 |
| 8 | November 2, 2020 01:45 | November 3, 2020 03:15 | 1d 1h | 3,100 | 8,475 |
| 9 | September 20, 2020 21:00 | September 20, 2020 21:15 | 15m | 2,945 | 736 |
| 10 | June 23, 2020 10:15 | June 24, 2020 03:15 | 17h | 2,897 | 4,385 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 125 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Cumberland 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 |
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 1.91 | 3.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2020 | 6.6 hrs | 1.65 | 2.4 hrs | 1.14 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative 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 ÷ 142,576 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county