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2021 Lackawanna County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lackawanna County, PA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 274K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2119th 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 Lackawanna 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 | April 28, 2021 23:15 | April 30, 2021 01:00 | 1d 1h | 9,230 | 50K |
| 2 | July 6, 2021 20:30 | July 9, 2021 03:00 | 2d 6h | 6,373 | 28K |
| 3 | October 29, 2021 14:00 | October 31, 2021 03:45 | 1d 13h | 5,094 | 23K |
| 4 | March 5, 2021 17:30 | March 5, 2021 17:45 | 15m | 5,033 | 1,258 |
| 5 | July 17, 2021 19:30 | July 19, 2021 01:15 | 1d 5h | 3,634 | 19K |
| 6 | June 8, 2021 12:30 | June 8, 2021 22:15 | 9h 45m | 3,223 | 1,176 |
| 7 | December 11, 2021 18:15 | December 13, 2021 04:15 | 1d 10h | 2,637 | 13K |
| 8 | March 26, 2021 14:15 | March 27, 2021 14:00 | 23h 45m | 2,408 | 14K |
| 9 | June 17, 2021 13:00 | June 17, 2021 17:45 | 4h 45m | 2,389 | 758 |
| 10 | February 2, 2021 20:30 | February 2, 2021 21:00 | 30m | 2,375 | 610 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 114 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Lackawanna 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 |
| Claverack Rural Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Blakely - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Olyphant - (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 ÷ 119,979 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. Lackawanna County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lackawanna 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/lackawanna-county