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2020 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 580K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1723rd 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 Erie 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 10, 2020 08:45 | June 12, 2020 10:45 | 2d 2h | 23,433 | 36K |
| 2 | November 3, 2020 22:45 | November 4, 2020 03:30 | 4h 45m | 21,960 | 29K |
| 3 | June 22, 2020 09:30 | June 24, 2020 08:30 | 1d 23h | 13,634 | 19K |
| 4 | August 27, 2020 13:15 | August 29, 2020 10:00 | 1d 20h | 10,892 | 39K |
| 5 | November 15, 2020 12:00 | November 19, 2020 11:45 | 3d 23h | 8,712 | 104K |
| 6 | September 8, 2020 18:45 | September 10, 2020 01:00 | 1d 6h | 7,632 | 8,443 |
| 7 | January 16, 2020 13:00 | January 17, 2020 02:15 | 13h 15m | 7,135 | 2,597 |
| 8 | September 21, 2020 13:15 | September 21, 2020 20:30 | 7h 15m | 6,824 | 5,915 |
| 9 | November 1, 2020 13:15 | November 3, 2020 19:30 | 2d 6h | 5,547 | 13K |
| 10 | July 2, 2020 11:30 | July 3, 2020 02:15 | 14h 45m | 4,877 | 5,466 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 185 reached 100+ customers, 35 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Erie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 1.91 | 3.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county