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2021 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 201K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1819th 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 Fayette 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 8, 2021 11:45 | June 8, 2021 19:00 | 7h 15m | 3,678 | 9,633 |
| 2 | December 24, 2021 05:00 | December 24, 2021 07:00 | 2h | 2,602 | 5,203 |
| 3 | March 9, 2021 13:45 | March 9, 2021 14:15 | 30m | 2,426 | 1,203 |
| 4 | April 15, 2021 16:15 | April 15, 2021 17:00 | 45m | 2,426 | 1,820 |
| 5 | April 30, 2021 15:45 | April 30, 2021 21:30 | 5h 45m | 2,160 | 1,101 |
| 6 | June 29, 2021 15:45 | June 29, 2021 22:00 | 6h 15m | 2,110 | 1,234 |
| 7 | September 29, 2021 14:00 | September 29, 2021 15:30 | 1h 30m | 2,108 | 1,058 |
| 8 | November 2, 2021 12:00 | November 2, 2021 12:30 | 30m | 1,944 | 972 |
| 9 | October 6, 2021 03:15 | October 6, 2021 21:15 | 18h | 1,804 | 2,957 |
| 10 | July 3, 2021 23:00 | July 4, 2021 12:30 | 13h 30m | 1,743 | 1,894 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 88 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Fayette 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec 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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county