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2020 Lehigh County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lehigh County, PA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 472K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2158th 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 Lehigh 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 | January 26, 2020 19:30 | January 26, 2020 20:00 | 30m | 21,082 | 5,272 |
| 2 | August 4, 2020 11:45 | August 9, 2020 06:15 | 4d 18h | 16,063 | 180K |
| 3 | December 2, 2020 17:30 | December 2, 2020 19:45 | 2h 15m | 8,810 | 2,221 |
| 4 | April 12, 2020 22:30 | April 14, 2020 18:15 | 1d 19h | 5,281 | 24K |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 22:30 | November 4, 2020 00:15 | 2d 1h | 4,346 | 28K |
| 6 | June 3, 2020 16:00 | June 6, 2020 05:45 | 2d 13h | 3,889 | 9,710 |
| 7 | May 26, 2020 01:45 | May 26, 2020 08:30 | 6h 45m | 3,219 | 1,945 |
| 8 | January 12, 2020 07:15 | January 12, 2020 20:45 | 13h 30m | 3,106 | 1,576 |
| 9 | June 12, 2020 11:15 | June 12, 2020 16:45 | 5h 30m | 3,065 | 813 |
| 10 | December 25, 2020 02:30 | December 27, 2020 01:00 | 1d 22h | 2,566 | 25K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 188 reached 100+ customers, 53 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Lehigh 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 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2020 | 6.6 hrs | 1.65 | 2.4 hrs | 1.14 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 212,008 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. Lehigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lehigh 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/lehigh-county