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2021 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 610K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1617th 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 Erie 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 | May 20, 2021 23:00 | May 22, 2021 04:45 | 1d 5h | 20,444 | 48K |
| 2 | June 14, 2021 11:30 | June 14, 2021 16:45 | 5h 15m | 16,494 | 31K |
| 3 | August 4, 2021 12:00 | August 4, 2021 21:30 | 9h 30m | 14,562 | 12K |
| 4 | July 17, 2021 12:30 | July 18, 2021 13:00 | 1d | 9,403 | 13K |
| 5 | June 29, 2021 08:15 | July 3, 2021 00:30 | 3d 16h | 8,174 | 23K |
| 6 | August 30, 2021 08:15 | August 31, 2021 07:00 | 22h 45m | 7,235 | 5,605 |
| 7 | March 31, 2021 16:00 | April 1, 2021 08:15 | 16h 15m | 6,881 | 19K |
| 8 | May 4, 2021 08:45 | May 4, 2021 10:15 | 1h 30m | 5,788 | 2,737 |
| 9 | February 17, 2021 12:45 | February 17, 2021 20:45 | 8h | 4,862 | 2,890 |
| 10 | July 26, 2021 11:30 | July 27, 2021 03:30 | 16h | 4,394 | 7,872 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 199 reached 100+ customers, 33 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Erie 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county