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2020 Luzerne County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Luzerne County, PA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 385K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2114th 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 Luzerne 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 | June 10, 2020 23:00 | June 11, 2020 22:15 | 23h 15m | 31,950 | 44K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 08:30 | April 15, 2020 01:30 | 1d 17h | 10,684 | 61K |
| 3 | November 23, 2020 12:45 | November 23, 2020 22:15 | 9h 30m | 10,684 | 9,365 |
| 4 | July 3, 2020 19:45 | July 4, 2020 08:15 | 12h 30m | 7,840 | 4,983 |
| 5 | August 24, 2020 08:00 | August 26, 2020 09:00 | 2d 1h | 6,141 | 43K |
| 6 | July 11, 2020 10:45 | July 12, 2020 05:45 | 19h | 5,491 | 2,524 |
| 7 | February 27, 2020 03:00 | February 28, 2020 08:30 | 1d 5h | 4,596 | 18K |
| 8 | June 29, 2020 10:30 | June 29, 2020 14:45 | 4h 15m | 4,255 | 1,096 |
| 9 | April 9, 2020 15:00 | April 10, 2020 14:45 | 23h 45m | 3,378 | 8,492 |
| 10 | October 26, 2020 12:00 | October 28, 2020 02:15 | 1d 14h | 2,704 | 38K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 128 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Luzerne 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 |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | 2020 | 67 min | 0.58 | 67 min | 0.58 |
| Claverack 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 ÷ 164,504 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. Luzerne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luzerne 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/luzerne-county