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2022 Berks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Berks County, PA went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 962K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.7 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1555th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Berks 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 | February 17, 2022 15:00 | February 21, 2022 07:00 | 3d 16h | 8,577 | 109K |
| 2 | December 22, 2022 23:15 | December 30, 2022 00:15 | 7d 1h | 8,070 | 223K |
| 3 | December 7, 2022 02:30 | December 9, 2022 21:30 | 2d 19h | 5,932 | 5,227 |
| 4 | July 13, 2022 11:00 | July 14, 2022 09:30 | 22h 30m | 5,624 | 9,306 |
| 5 | July 28, 2022 02:30 | July 30, 2022 21:00 | 2d 18h | 3,910 | 40K |
| 6 | September 11, 2022 04:00 | September 14, 2022 08:00 | 3d 4h | 3,879 | 16K |
| 7 | March 8, 2022 01:00 | March 10, 2022 17:00 | 2d 16h | 3,591 | 26K |
| 8 | November 20, 2022 10:00 | November 22, 2022 00:30 | 1d 14h | 3,392 | 27K |
| 9 | February 13, 2022 15:30 | February 13, 2022 19:00 | 3h 30m | 2,784 | 4,183 |
| 10 | December 15, 2022 19:45 | December 17, 2022 14:15 | 1d 18h | 2,660 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 168 reached 100+ customers, 38 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 Berks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2022 | 2.4 hrs | 0.90 | 89 min | 0.74 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2022 | 4.5 hrs | 1.50 | 2.8 hrs | 1.24 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Kutztown - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 219,087 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. Berks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berks County, PA 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/pennsylvania/berks-county