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2021 Carbon County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Carbon County, PA went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 178K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1236th 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 Carbon 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 | April 30, 2021 16:30 | May 1, 2021 22:30 | 1d 6h | 3,449 | 8,203 |
| 2 | July 2, 2021 05:00 | July 2, 2021 05:15 | 15m | 3,172 | 793 |
| 3 | February 9, 2021 20:00 | February 10, 2021 00:00 | 4h | 2,296 | 1,836 |
| 4 | September 1, 2021 13:30 | September 4, 2021 03:00 | 2d 13h | 2,122 | 38K |
| 5 | December 6, 2021 23:45 | December 8, 2021 01:15 | 1d 1h | 1,901 | 11K |
| 6 | December 12, 2021 01:00 | December 13, 2021 03:00 | 1d 2h | 1,693 | 6,110 |
| 7 | November 17, 2021 13:15 | November 17, 2021 15:15 | 2h | 1,618 | 3,235 |
| 8 | July 3, 2021 23:45 | July 4, 2021 04:30 | 4h 45m | 1,448 | 5,139 |
| 9 | July 17, 2021 20:30 | July 18, 2021 22:30 | 1d 2h | 1,317 | 9,337 |
| 10 | November 28, 2021 19:45 | November 29, 2021 00:15 | 4h 30m | 1,309 | 3,032 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 65 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Carbon 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 |
| Borough of Lehighton - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Weatherly - (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 ÷ 32,206 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. Carbon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carbon 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/carbon-county