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2022 Franklin County, MA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Franklin County, MA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 127K customer-hours (Massachusetts average 3.3 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 14 Massachusetts counties and 2220th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Massachusetts customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Franklin County, 2022
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 23, 2022 16:45 | August 23, 2022 22:30 | 5h 45m | 5,314 | 2,699 |
| 2 | March 8, 2022 02:45 | March 9, 2022 03:30 | 1d | 2,708 | 24K |
| 3 | June 4, 2022 16:45 | June 5, 2022 15:45 | 23h | 2,343 | 2,730 |
| 4 | July 26, 2022 05:15 | July 26, 2022 07:45 | 2h 30m | 2,336 | 2,744 |
| 5 | November 20, 2022 16:00 | November 21, 2022 00:45 | 8h 45m | 2,299 | 2,167 |
| 6 | September 2, 2022 13:30 | September 2, 2022 17:30 | 4h | 2,218 | 2,724 |
| 7 | July 21, 2022 19:30 | July 23, 2022 23:45 | 2d 4h | 1,818 | 24K |
| 8 | June 3, 2022 13:30 | June 3, 2022 14:15 | 45m | 1,314 | 329 |
| 9 | December 16, 2022 09:45 | December 18, 2022 05:45 | 1d 20h | 1,309 | 17K |
| 10 | January 13, 2022 17:15 | January 13, 2022 17:45 | 30m | 1,066 | 371 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 59 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Franklin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Electric Co | 2022 | 2.4 hrs | 1.16 | 1.8 hrs | 1.05 |
| NSTAR Electric Company | 2022 | 3.3 hrs | 1.03 | 69 min | 0.75 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 99% of Massachusetts's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 57,949 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin County, MA annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/massachusetts/franklin-county