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2021 Forest County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Forest County, PA went without power for an average of 33.9 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 270th 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 Forest 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 10:15 | March 28, 2021 19:15 | 2d 9h | 2,043 | 12K |
| 2 | July 7, 2021 13:00 | July 8, 2021 19:30 | 1d 6h | 1,988 | 9,629 |
| 3 | December 11, 2021 14:30 | December 13, 2021 18:00 | 2d 3h | 1,440 | 18K |
| 4 | August 10, 2021 10:00 | August 10, 2021 15:30 | 5h 30m | 1,293 | 6,553 |
| 5 | December 18, 2021 10:15 | December 18, 2021 13:30 | 3h 15m | 1,244 | 3,428 |
| 6 | March 28, 2021 20:45 | March 29, 2021 05:00 | 8h 15m | 1,240 | 4,569 |
| 7 | June 28, 2021 08:45 | June 28, 2021 14:15 | 5h 30m | 1,085 | 2,719 |
| 8 | December 24, 2021 09:30 | December 24, 2021 11:30 | 2h | 1,072 | 2,144 |
| 9 | July 16, 2021 21:00 | July 18, 2021 11:00 | 1d 14h | 981 | 4,173 |
| 10 | July 12, 2021 19:00 | July 14, 2021 20:45 | 2d 1h | 887 | 7,709 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 41 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Forest 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren 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 ÷ 3,447 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. Forest County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forest 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/forest-county