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2021 Northumberland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Northumberland County, PA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 151K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1759th 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 Northumberland 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 1, 2021 20:45 | March 3, 2021 07:45 | 1d 11h | 5,296 | 5,462 |
| 2 | July 17, 2021 21:00 | July 19, 2021 13:30 | 1d 16h | 2,157 | 13K |
| 3 | July 13, 2021 20:30 | July 15, 2021 03:15 | 1d 6h | 1,814 | 1,548 |
| 4 | January 4, 2021 14:00 | January 4, 2021 14:15 | 15m | 1,519 | 380 |
| 5 | September 1, 2021 11:30 | September 4, 2021 17:45 | 3d 6h | 1,389 | 36K |
| 6 | September 22, 2021 17:00 | September 24, 2021 18:30 | 2d 1h | 1,243 | 5,189 |
| 7 | May 28, 2021 12:15 | May 28, 2021 14:30 | 2h 15m | 1,137 | 447 |
| 8 | December 18, 2021 14:30 | December 18, 2021 18:45 | 4h 15m | 1,137 | 587 |
| 9 | October 27, 2021 12:15 | October 27, 2021 16:00 | 3h 45m | 923 | 248 |
| 10 | March 22, 2021 13:45 | March 22, 2021 14:45 | 1h | 921 | 921 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 80 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 Northumberland 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 |
| Citizens Electric Co - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Watsontown - (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 ÷ 46,261 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. Northumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northumberland 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/northumberland-county