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2022 Dauphin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Dauphin County, PA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 234K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.7 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2578th 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 Dauphin 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 28, 2022 19:30 | August 28, 2022 20:00 | 30m | 10,766 | 5,380 |
| 2 | February 17, 2022 14:15 | February 17, 2022 22:45 | 8h 30m | 4,567 | 7,871 |
| 3 | June 17, 2022 01:45 | June 17, 2022 16:45 | 15h | 4,047 | 12K |
| 4 | February 18, 2022 05:00 | February 20, 2022 18:45 | 2d 13h | 3,817 | 20K |
| 5 | December 22, 2022 19:45 | December 27, 2022 00:00 | 4d 4h | 2,499 | 25K |
| 6 | February 25, 2022 20:15 | February 26, 2022 03:00 | 6h 45m | 2,485 | 2,097 |
| 7 | February 1, 2022 13:30 | February 2, 2022 06:30 | 17h | 2,377 | 675 |
| 8 | February 21, 2022 10:45 | February 21, 2022 18:00 | 7h 15m | 2,315 | 1,953 |
| 9 | August 30, 2022 23:30 | August 31, 2022 07:00 | 7h 30m | 2,252 | 2,630 |
| 10 | January 17, 2022 03:00 | January 18, 2022 21:00 | 1d 18h | 2,050 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 112 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 Dauphin 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 Middletown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Royalton - (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 ÷ 176,757 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. Dauphin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dauphin 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/dauphin-county