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2020 Dauphin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dauphin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 171K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2675th 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 Dauphin 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 12:00 | February 7, 2020 14:15 | 2h 15m | 6,427 | 8,099 |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 07:30 | April 15, 2020 10:30 | 2d 3h | 3,937 | 4,828 |
| 3 | February 25, 2020 15:00 | February 25, 2020 19:00 | 4h | 3,691 | 938 |
| 4 | February 20, 2020 14:00 | February 20, 2020 23:15 | 9h 15m | 3,530 | 3,662 |
| 5 | February 7, 2020 15:15 | February 7, 2020 23:15 | 8h | 3,452 | 1,104 |
| 6 | December 8, 2020 04:00 | December 8, 2020 09:00 | 5h | 2,650 | 1,793 |
| 7 | April 9, 2020 16:30 | April 11, 2020 05:45 | 1d 13h | 2,550 | 15K |
| 8 | May 13, 2020 10:30 | May 13, 2020 10:45 | 15m | 2,293 | 573 |
| 9 | February 27, 2020 01:45 | February 27, 2020 02:15 | 30m | 2,240 | 664 |
| 10 | August 27, 2020 13:15 | August 29, 2020 10:00 | 1d 20h | 2,207 | 6,527 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 102 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Dauphin 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 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2020 | 6.6 hrs | 1.65 | 2.4 hrs | 1.14 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Middletown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Royalton - (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 ÷ 176,757 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. Dauphin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dauphin 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/dauphin-county