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2020 Potter County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Potter County, PA went without power for an average of 10.8 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 742nd 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 Potter 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 | November 15, 2020 23:00 | November 18, 2020 19:00 | 2d 20h | 2,718 | 14K |
| 2 | August 27, 2020 18:00 | August 30, 2020 20:45 | 3d 2h | 795 | 21K |
| 3 | July 27, 2020 21:00 | July 28, 2020 06:15 | 9h 15m | 787 | 7,209 |
| 4 | October 7, 2020 21:00 | October 7, 2020 23:45 | 2h 45m | 767 | 1,733 |
| 5 | April 18, 2020 00:45 | April 19, 2020 05:45 | 1d 5h | 762 | 14K |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 20:45 | April 14, 2020 06:30 | 9h 45m | 753 | 1,264 |
| 7 | April 4, 2020 15:45 | April 4, 2020 18:45 | 3h | 752 | 2,256 |
| 8 | April 26, 2020 11:00 | April 26, 2020 11:45 | 45m | 745 | 491 |
| 9 | May 12, 2020 12:45 | May 12, 2020 19:00 | 6h 15m | 688 | 4,129 |
| 10 | November 2, 2020 11:15 | November 2, 2020 15:00 | 3h 45m | 687 | 2,576 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 35 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Potter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 1.91 | 3.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.27 | 2.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (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 ÷ 9,352 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county