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2020 Philadelphia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Philadelphia County, PA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1986th 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 Philadelphia 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 | May 30, 2020 17:30 | June 13, 2020 01:00 | 13d 7h | 43,823 | 1.1M |
| 2 | June 29, 2020 04:00 | September 21, 2020 03:00 | 83d 23h | 32,597 | 498K |
| 3 | January 29, 2020 09:15 | March 1, 2020 11:15 | 32d 2h | 18,560 | 52K |
| 4 | March 7, 2020 00:45 | April 6, 2020 07:15 | 30d 6h | 14,413 | 62K |
| 5 | October 25, 2020 12:15 | November 25, 2020 08:30 | 30d 20h | 11,562 | 82K |
| 6 | April 6, 2020 11:15 | April 12, 2020 15:30 | 6d 4h | 4,489 | 16K |
| 7 | October 11, 2020 12:15 | October 22, 2020 08:30 | 10d 20h | 3,963 | 22K |
| 8 | April 12, 2020 16:30 | April 18, 2020 19:45 | 6d 3h | 2,558 | 22K |
| 9 | September 26, 2020 13:30 | October 11, 2020 01:30 | 14d 12h | 2,252 | 27K |
| 10 | November 25, 2020 12:30 | December 31, 2020 00:15 | 35d 11h | 2,177 | 88K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 27 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Philadelphia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PECO Energy Co | 2020 | 10.5 hrs | 1.52 | 76 min | 0.82 |
| Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 802,812 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. Philadelphia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Philadelphia 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/philadelphia-county