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2021 Berks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Berks County, PA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1408th 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 Berks 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 | June 11, 2021 20:30 | June 17, 2021 08:00 | 5d 11h | 13,875 | 31K |
| 2 | September 1, 2021 08:30 | September 7, 2021 06:30 | 5d 22h | 11,705 | 249K |
| 3 | July 12, 2021 03:30 | July 14, 2021 06:30 | 2d 3h | 6,301 | 30K |
| 4 | May 26, 2021 17:30 | May 30, 2021 02:15 | 3d 8h | 5,372 | 48K |
| 5 | June 8, 2021 11:00 | June 9, 2021 17:30 | 1d 6h | 4,734 | 3,686 |
| 6 | October 29, 2021 13:00 | November 1, 2021 02:30 | 2d 13h | 4,376 | 52K |
| 7 | December 6, 2021 14:30 | December 9, 2021 03:30 | 2d 13h | 4,195 | 55K |
| 8 | July 28, 2021 11:00 | July 29, 2021 07:00 | 20h | 3,981 | 9,419 |
| 9 | July 10, 2021 14:30 | July 11, 2021 23:30 | 1d 9h | 3,476 | 4,573 |
| 10 | September 7, 2021 09:00 | September 11, 2021 12:00 | 4d 3h | 3,399 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 149 reached 100+ customers, 47 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Berks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 0.93 | 85 min | 0.64 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2021 | 5.1 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Kutztown - (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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 219,087 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. Berks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berks 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/berks-county