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2022 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 538K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.7 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1860th 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 Erie 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 | May 7, 2022 19:00 | May 8, 2022 05:15 | 10h 15m | 31,009 | 75K |
| 2 | April 18, 2022 10:00 | April 19, 2022 06:30 | 20h 30m | 11,403 | 8,546 |
| 3 | July 24, 2022 17:30 | July 26, 2022 04:00 | 1d 10h | 10,408 | 17K |
| 4 | March 31, 2022 00:30 | March 31, 2022 07:00 | 6h 30m | 8,199 | 6,785 |
| 5 | February 16, 2022 14:00 | February 16, 2022 23:00 | 9h | 5,990 | 5,866 |
| 6 | July 1, 2022 12:00 | July 2, 2022 23:00 | 1d 11h | 4,823 | 6,187 |
| 7 | December 28, 2022 13:45 | December 28, 2022 22:00 | 8h 15m | 4,436 | 7,059 |
| 8 | February 11, 2022 14:00 | February 13, 2022 13:30 | 1d 23h | 3,984 | 5,662 |
| 9 | March 27, 2022 02:00 | March 27, 2022 12:30 | 10h 30m | 3,904 | 2,143 |
| 10 | November 27, 2022 06:45 | November 27, 2022 21:30 | 14h 45m | 3,695 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 185 reached 100+ customers, 40 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Erie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2022 | 6.7 hrs | 2.04 | 4.3 hrs | 1.79 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county