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2020 Jefferson County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Jefferson County, PA went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 149K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1031st 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 Jefferson 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 | May 19, 2020 12:30 | May 20, 2020 06:30 | 18h | 4,757 | 13K |
| 2 | November 15, 2020 22:15 | November 18, 2020 04:30 | 2d 6h | 4,612 | 35K |
| 3 | July 27, 2020 23:30 | July 28, 2020 18:45 | 19h 15m | 2,724 | 1,766 |
| 4 | August 27, 2020 20:00 | August 30, 2020 01:30 | 2d 5h | 2,550 | 21K |
| 5 | October 23, 2020 12:00 | October 23, 2020 15:45 | 3h 45m | 2,436 | 1,773 |
| 6 | December 1, 2020 14:45 | December 2, 2020 21:45 | 1d 7h | 2,368 | 13K |
| 7 | May 21, 2020 08:30 | May 21, 2020 08:45 | 15m | 2,046 | 512 |
| 8 | February 14, 2020 02:15 | February 14, 2020 05:00 | 2h 45m | 1,678 | 430 |
| 9 | May 1, 2020 10:45 | May 1, 2020 11:15 | 30m | 1,666 | 833 |
| 10 | November 1, 2020 18:00 | November 2, 2020 09:00 | 15h | 1,634 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Jefferson 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy 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 ÷ 20,070 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county