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2021 Centre County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Centre County, PA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 269K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1928th 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 Centre 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 | March 26, 2021 11:30 | March 28, 2021 23:45 | 2d 12h | 4,693 | 33K |
| 2 | June 21, 2021 14:15 | June 23, 2021 10:45 | 1d 20h | 4,430 | 16K |
| 3 | September 15, 2021 18:00 | September 16, 2021 23:30 | 1d 5h | 3,904 | 8,904 |
| 4 | July 16, 2021 21:00 | July 19, 2021 01:00 | 2d 4h | 3,337 | 20K |
| 5 | June 28, 2021 08:15 | June 28, 2021 16:45 | 8h 30m | 3,328 | 1,085 |
| 6 | April 17, 2021 05:15 | April 17, 2021 06:45 | 1h 30m | 3,103 | 3,880 |
| 7 | July 7, 2021 18:30 | July 10, 2021 00:30 | 2d 6h | 3,092 | 29K |
| 8 | May 7, 2021 06:00 | May 7, 2021 06:45 | 45m | 2,987 | 1,177 |
| 9 | June 7, 2021 18:15 | June 7, 2021 18:30 | 15m | 2,869 | 717 |
| 10 | April 22, 2021 12:15 | April 22, 2021 17:00 | 4h 45m | 2,757 | 1,395 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 101 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Centre 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop 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 ÷ 96,428 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. Centre County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Centre 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/centre-county