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2020 Somerset County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Somerset County, PA went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 203K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1245th 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 Somerset 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 | April 8, 2020 06:30 | April 10, 2020 22:15 | 2d 15h | 9,603 | 104K |
| 2 | November 15, 2020 19:15 | November 17, 2020 11:00 | 1d 15h | 4,808 | 21K |
| 3 | December 2, 2020 11:00 | December 2, 2020 19:45 | 8h 45m | 3,045 | 1,992 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 08:30 | April 14, 2020 03:45 | 19h 15m | 2,874 | 12K |
| 5 | December 26, 2020 04:15 | December 26, 2020 14:45 | 10h 30m | 2,099 | 4,264 |
| 6 | August 27, 2020 19:15 | August 30, 2020 00:45 | 2d 5h | 2,060 | 5,872 |
| 7 | April 29, 2020 18:30 | April 29, 2020 21:45 | 3h 15m | 2,039 | 2,066 |
| 8 | March 29, 2020 15:15 | March 30, 2020 04:00 | 12h 45m | 1,830 | 2,909 |
| 9 | July 8, 2020 12:45 | July 8, 2020 23:15 | 10h 30m | 1,779 | 1,871 |
| 10 | November 11, 2020 01:15 | November 11, 2020 02:15 | 1h | 1,706 | 1,597 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 58 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Somerset 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Berlin - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hooversville Boro Elec Lgt 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 ÷ 34,025 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county