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2020 Northumberland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Northumberland County, PA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1783rd 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 Northumberland 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 | August 27, 2020 08:45 | August 29, 2020 10:45 | 2d 2h | 4,394 | 36K |
| 2 | October 16, 2020 18:00 | October 16, 2020 18:30 | 30m | 3,367 | 844 |
| 3 | June 19, 2020 23:15 | June 20, 2020 00:00 | 45m | 2,612 | 1,375 |
| 4 | February 24, 2020 09:45 | February 24, 2020 15:15 | 5h 30m | 2,109 | 1,982 |
| 5 | April 6, 2020 15:30 | April 6, 2020 15:45 | 15m | 2,081 | 520 |
| 6 | September 9, 2020 14:00 | September 9, 2020 17:30 | 3h 30m | 1,984 | 3,418 |
| 7 | January 12, 2020 06:15 | January 12, 2020 23:15 | 17h | 1,831 | 12K |
| 8 | April 19, 2020 07:15 | April 19, 2020 07:45 | 30m | 1,685 | 422 |
| 9 | November 15, 2020 17:15 | November 17, 2020 20:45 | 2d 3h | 1,485 | 7,472 |
| 10 | November 11, 2020 21:00 | November 11, 2020 21:15 | 15m | 1,314 | 329 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 79 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Northumberland 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 |
| Citizens Electric Co - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Watsontown - (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 ÷ 46,261 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. Northumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northumberland 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/northumberland-county