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2021 Potter County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Potter County, PA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1106th 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 Potter 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 | July 16, 2021 17:30 | July 17, 2021 06:00 | 12h 30m | 1,622 | 7,900 |
| 2 | January 15, 2021 19:15 | January 16, 2021 17:15 | 22h | 779 | 13K |
| 3 | August 18, 2021 02:00 | August 18, 2021 16:00 | 14h | 749 | 5,798 |
| 4 | March 6, 2021 01:45 | March 6, 2021 02:15 | 30m | 748 | 372 |
| 5 | March 6, 2021 18:15 | March 6, 2021 21:00 | 2h 45m | 748 | 2,011 |
| 6 | July 13, 2021 12:30 | July 13, 2021 13:00 | 30m | 748 | 374 |
| 7 | June 7, 2021 01:30 | June 7, 2021 02:00 | 30m | 747 | 374 |
| 8 | December 11, 2021 10:30 | December 13, 2021 00:30 | 1d 14h | 747 | 3,733 |
| 9 | September 6, 2021 13:30 | September 6, 2021 16:30 | 3h | 745 | 2,235 |
| 10 | December 11, 2021 00:00 | December 11, 2021 01:00 | 1h | 736 | 736 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 25 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Potter 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 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2021 | 4.2 hrs | 1.39 | 2.5 hrs | 1.07 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (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 ÷ 9,352 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county