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2020 Northampton County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Northampton County, PA went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 397K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2068th 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 Northampton 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 19:45 | 15m | 16,535 | 4,134 |
| 2 | January 2, 2020 10:15 | January 2, 2020 19:15 | 9h | 12,399 | 3,211 |
| 3 | August 4, 2020 11:30 | August 8, 2020 18:15 | 4d 6h | 9,744 | 103K |
| 4 | April 20, 2020 13:00 | April 20, 2020 16:00 | 3h | 5,377 | 2,395 |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 21:30 | November 4, 2020 17:30 | 2d 20h | 5,192 | 25K |
| 6 | January 27, 2020 14:15 | January 27, 2020 21:15 | 7h | 4,116 | 6,307 |
| 7 | July 11, 2020 20:30 | July 12, 2020 00:30 | 4h | 3,234 | 834 |
| 8 | November 15, 2020 19:30 | November 17, 2020 18:45 | 1d 23h | 2,893 | 27K |
| 9 | January 16, 2020 12:45 | January 17, 2020 17:00 | 1d 4h | 2,853 | 2,335 |
| 10 | July 22, 2020 02:30 | July 23, 2020 22:45 | 1d 20h | 2,765 | 6,062 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 136 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Northampton 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 ÷ 161,848 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county