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2021 Bedford County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bedford County, PA went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 163K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1139th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bedford County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 1, 2021 10:30 | September 3, 2021 22:00 | 2d 11h | 3,503 | 31K |
| 2 | November 3, 2021 14:30 | November 3, 2021 17:00 | 2h 30m | 2,719 | 4,695 |
| 3 | August 18, 2021 13:30 | August 20, 2021 21:30 | 2d 8h | 1,632 | 13K |
| 4 | August 23, 2021 16:30 | August 24, 2021 03:30 | 11h | 1,529 | 1,849 |
| 5 | December 18, 2021 04:30 | December 18, 2021 19:15 | 14h 45m | 1,504 | 16K |
| 6 | July 7, 2021 18:00 | July 8, 2021 06:45 | 12h 45m | 1,478 | 2,688 |
| 7 | September 15, 2021 14:30 | September 15, 2021 18:00 | 3h 30m | 1,353 | 687 |
| 8 | January 1, 2021 22:15 | January 4, 2021 02:45 | 2d 4h | 1,350 | 19K |
| 9 | March 26, 2021 13:45 | March 27, 2021 21:15 | 1d 7h | 1,206 | 7,388 |
| 10 | October 11, 2021 14:30 | October 11, 2021 21:00 | 6h 30m | 1,178 | 2,390 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 55 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Bedford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 5.9 hrs | 2.17 | 4.2 hrs | 1.81 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2021 | 4.2 hrs | 1.39 | 2.5 hrs | 1.07 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Enterprise R E C, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 26,999 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford County, PA annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/pennsylvania/bedford-county