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2020 Union County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Union County, PA went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2742nd 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 Union 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 | June 19, 2020 23:00 | June 20, 2020 02:30 | 3h 30m | 923 | 2,255 |
| 2 | July 15, 2020 05:45 | July 15, 2020 07:45 | 2h | 740 | 1,249 |
| 3 | August 27, 2020 20:00 | August 28, 2020 23:30 | 1d 3h | 444 | 2,136 |
| 4 | July 3, 2020 22:45 | July 4, 2020 00:00 | 1h 15m | 383 | 479 |
| 5 | July 18, 2020 04:30 | July 18, 2020 05:30 | 1h | 380 | 370 |
| 6 | November 17, 2020 20:15 | November 17, 2020 22:00 | 1h 45m | 365 | 637 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 22:45 | November 17, 2020 07:30 | 1d 8h | 330 | 4,791 |
| 8 | October 12, 2020 13:15 | October 12, 2020 17:00 | 3h 45m | 293 | 307 |
| 9 | May 30, 2020 00:45 | May 30, 2020 03:45 | 3h | 250 | 501 |
| 10 | May 28, 2020 17:15 | May 28, 2020 20:00 | 2h 45m | 212 | 491 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 18 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Union 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 Mifflinburg - (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 ÷ 28,701 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county