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2021 Luzerne County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Luzerne County, PA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 440K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1973rd 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 Luzerne 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 | August 12, 2021 18:45 | August 15, 2021 04:30 | 2d 9h | 6,885 | 72K |
| 2 | June 28, 2021 17:30 | June 29, 2021 02:30 | 9h | 6,587 | 14K |
| 3 | March 26, 2021 13:45 | March 28, 2021 21:15 | 2d 7h | 4,953 | 56K |
| 4 | October 20, 2021 17:00 | October 20, 2021 21:45 | 4h 45m | 4,443 | 1,125 |
| 5 | June 11, 2021 17:30 | June 11, 2021 17:45 | 15m | 4,415 | 1,104 |
| 6 | October 8, 2021 13:45 | October 8, 2021 19:45 | 6h | 3,798 | 4,343 |
| 7 | April 11, 2021 10:30 | April 11, 2021 17:30 | 7h | 3,785 | 3,697 |
| 8 | June 11, 2021 13:15 | June 11, 2021 16:30 | 3h 15m | 3,547 | 3,526 |
| 9 | July 3, 2021 08:15 | July 21, 2021 01:15 | 17d 17h | 3,528 | 40K |
| 10 | September 1, 2021 13:45 | September 4, 2021 13:00 | 2d 23h | 3,513 | 51K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 122 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Luzerne 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 |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.11 | 1.5 hrs | 0.76 |
| Claverack 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 ÷ 164,504 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. Luzerne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luzerne 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/luzerne-county