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2020 Washington County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washington County, PA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 464K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1588th 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 Washington 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 15:00 | November 18, 2020 22:30 | 3d 7h | 9,972 | 71K |
| 2 | March 28, 2020 18:00 | March 31, 2020 05:00 | 2d 11h | 6,215 | 39K |
| 3 | August 27, 2020 18:00 | August 31, 2020 09:45 | 3d 15h | 3,495 | 42K |
| 4 | April 8, 2020 05:45 | April 11, 2020 00:45 | 2d 19h | 3,237 | 37K |
| 5 | June 10, 2020 22:30 | June 12, 2020 22:15 | 1d 23h | 2,875 | 21K |
| 6 | March 16, 2020 12:00 | March 16, 2020 22:45 | 10h 45m | 2,243 | 1,081 |
| 7 | June 27, 2020 20:45 | June 27, 2020 21:15 | 30m | 2,199 | 1,100 |
| 8 | December 16, 2020 22:45 | December 18, 2020 17:45 | 1d 19h | 2,185 | 13K |
| 9 | March 20, 2020 11:15 | March 21, 2020 05:45 | 18h 30m | 2,086 | 2,943 |
| 10 | July 9, 2020 20:00 | July 12, 2020 16:45 | 2d 20h | 1,994 | 23K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 132 reached 100+ customers, 37 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.27 | 2.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric 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 ÷ 113,196 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county