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2020 Elk County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Elk County, PA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 77K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1489th 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 Elk 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 | January 18, 2020 20:00 | January 18, 2020 22:45 | 2h 45m | 1,017 | 1,531 |
| 2 | November 15, 2020 22:15 | November 18, 2020 20:30 | 2d 22h | 949 | 15K |
| 3 | August 27, 2020 11:30 | August 30, 2020 23:45 | 3d 12h | 853 | 24K |
| 4 | April 18, 2020 00:00 | April 19, 2020 02:45 | 1d 2h | 725 | 3,764 |
| 5 | July 17, 2020 17:00 | July 18, 2020 02:45 | 9h 45m | 684 | 4,238 |
| 6 | February 13, 2020 23:45 | February 14, 2020 05:15 | 5h 30m | 630 | 1,934 |
| 7 | September 11, 2020 18:30 | September 11, 2020 22:45 | 4h 15m | 622 | 1,504 |
| 8 | September 23, 2020 12:30 | September 23, 2020 22:45 | 10h 15m | 522 | 1,090 |
| 9 | September 15, 2020 16:00 | September 15, 2020 22:15 | 6h 15m | 495 | 2,150 |
| 10 | January 12, 2020 09:45 | January 13, 2020 05:45 | 20h | 335 | 1,105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 31 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Elk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.27 | 2.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (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 ÷ 16,981 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county