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2022 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 288K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 886th 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 Columbia 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 | July 12, 2022 00:15 | July 12, 2022 01:15 | 1h | 11,378 | 7,966 |
| 2 | July 12, 2022 18:00 | July 14, 2022 03:30 | 1d 9h | 4,757 | 62K |
| 3 | March 8, 2022 00:15 | March 9, 2022 16:45 | 1d 16h | 2,969 | 27K |
| 4 | July 21, 2022 21:00 | July 21, 2022 22:00 | 1h | 2,794 | 2,102 |
| 5 | April 19, 2022 04:15 | April 21, 2022 02:30 | 1d 22h | 2,789 | 26K |
| 6 | December 22, 2022 23:15 | December 25, 2022 19:45 | 2d 20h | 2,266 | 33K |
| 7 | June 20, 2022 17:45 | June 20, 2022 21:15 | 3h 30m | 2,031 | 2,951 |
| 8 | February 14, 2022 15:30 | February 14, 2022 19:45 | 4h 15m | 1,858 | 475 |
| 9 | July 28, 2022 21:45 | July 29, 2022 01:00 | 3h 15m | 1,791 | 1,203 |
| 10 | March 31, 2022 15:45 | April 1, 2022 03:30 | 11h 45m | 1,679 | 3,764 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 117 reached 100+ customers, 24 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Columbia 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 |
| Borough of Catawissa | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,125 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county