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2020 Franklin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Franklin County, PA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 162K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2213th 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 Franklin 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 | July 21, 2020 20:30 | July 23, 2020 22:30 | 2d 2h | 5,316 | 41K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 16:45 | April 14, 2020 02:15 | 9h 30m | 4,974 | 5,398 |
| 3 | June 4, 2020 20:30 | June 6, 2020 18:00 | 1d 21h | 3,248 | 14K |
| 4 | November 2, 2020 01:00 | November 2, 2020 19:45 | 18h 45m | 3,148 | 2,809 |
| 5 | May 23, 2020 07:15 | May 23, 2020 11:00 | 3h 45m | 2,921 | 8,834 |
| 6 | August 26, 2020 23:00 | August 30, 2020 00:00 | 3d 1h | 2,345 | 13K |
| 7 | October 14, 2020 22:30 | October 15, 2020 08:45 | 10h 15m | 2,216 | 3,384 |
| 8 | August 17, 2020 06:45 | August 17, 2020 23:45 | 17h | 2,064 | 1,418 |
| 9 | October 16, 2020 00:00 | October 16, 2020 01:15 | 1h 15m | 1,683 | 561 |
| 10 | June 18, 2020 16:15 | June 18, 2020 16:30 | 15m | 1,676 | 419 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 69 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Franklin 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 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.27 | 2.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| Borough of Chambersburg | 2020 | 14 min | 0.35 | 14 min | 0.35 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mont Alto Borough | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 76,806 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county