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2021 Elk County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Elk County, PA went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 971st 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 Elk 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 4, 2021 15:45 | June 5, 2021 00:30 | 8h 45m | 4,733 | 3,768 |
| 2 | December 11, 2021 17:30 | December 13, 2021 09:30 | 1d 16h | 2,238 | 45K |
| 3 | May 4, 2021 19:15 | May 5, 2021 19:45 | 1d | 2,004 | 44K |
| 4 | July 13, 2021 22:30 | July 14, 2021 17:00 | 18h 30m | 976 | 6,048 |
| 5 | November 23, 2021 13:30 | November 23, 2021 17:30 | 4h | 965 | 3,335 |
| 6 | November 13, 2021 15:00 | November 13, 2021 19:30 | 4h 30m | 937 | 4,217 |
| 7 | July 31, 2021 05:30 | July 31, 2021 10:30 | 5h | 713 | 2,746 |
| 8 | April 26, 2021 14:30 | April 26, 2021 18:30 | 4h | 595 | 2,278 |
| 9 | May 22, 2021 01:30 | May 22, 2021 07:00 | 5h 30m | 591 | 1,813 |
| 10 | July 18, 2021 01:00 | July 18, 2021 04:30 | 3h 30m | 560 | 835 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 24 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Elk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2021 | 4.2 hrs | 1.39 | 2.5 hrs | 1.07 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (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 ÷ 16,981 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. Elk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elk 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/elk-county