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2020 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 285K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1537th 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 Fayette 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 | November 15, 2020 19:45 | November 18, 2020 15:30 | 2d 19h | 4,451 | 25K |
| 2 | March 4, 2020 01:45 | March 5, 2020 04:30 | 1d 2h | 4,232 | 14K |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 05:00 | April 14, 2020 17:45 | 1d 12h | 3,241 | 22K |
| 4 | July 9, 2020 23:30 | July 13, 2020 01:30 | 3d 2h | 3,027 | 28K |
| 5 | April 8, 2020 06:00 | April 10, 2020 23:45 | 2d 17h | 2,608 | 26K |
| 6 | May 9, 2020 09:30 | May 9, 2020 11:00 | 1h 30m | 2,419 | 3,297 |
| 7 | August 28, 2020 00:30 | August 30, 2020 18:15 | 2d 17h | 2,215 | 16K |
| 8 | April 29, 2020 19:45 | April 30, 2020 18:45 | 23h | 2,189 | 6,076 |
| 9 | June 18, 2020 12:15 | June 18, 2020 14:30 | 2h 15m | 2,117 | 1,176 |
| 10 | July 14, 2020 14:15 | July 14, 2020 21:45 | 7h 30m | 2,114 | 2,215 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 95 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Fayette 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, 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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county