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2020 Lackawanna County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lackawanna County, PA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 156K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2545th 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 Lackawanna 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 | December 15, 2020 18:30 | December 15, 2020 19:15 | 45m | 7,181 | 1,802 |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 09:15 | April 15, 2020 01:45 | 1d 16h | 6,054 | 19K |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 15:45 | February 7, 2020 23:30 | 7h 45m | 5,824 | 3,236 |
| 4 | September 25, 2020 17:45 | September 25, 2020 21:15 | 3h 30m | 4,426 | 2,112 |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 20:15 | November 3, 2020 20:00 | 1d 23h | 3,547 | 15K |
| 6 | August 4, 2020 15:15 | August 5, 2020 21:30 | 1d 6h | 2,168 | 4,948 |
| 7 | July 11, 2020 03:00 | July 12, 2020 02:15 | 23h 15m | 1,994 | 8,215 |
| 8 | June 2, 2020 12:30 | June 2, 2020 17:30 | 5h | 1,886 | 1,433 |
| 9 | May 9, 2020 00:15 | May 9, 2020 04:15 | 4h | 1,865 | 1,096 |
| 10 | November 24, 2020 05:15 | November 24, 2020 05:30 | 15m | 1,849 | 462 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 104 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Lackawanna 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.88 | 69 min | 0.69 |
| Claverack Rural Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Blakely - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Olyphant - (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 ÷ 119,979 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. Lackawanna County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lackawanna 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/lackawanna-county