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2022 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 388K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.7 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1224th 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 Fayette 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 18, 2022 00:00 | February 20, 2022 23:00 | 2d 23h | 8,984 | 142K |
| 2 | August 28, 2022 13:30 | August 28, 2022 15:00 | 1h 30m | 3,154 | 1,584 |
| 3 | June 8, 2022 23:45 | June 10, 2022 20:30 | 1d 20h | 2,751 | 28K |
| 4 | August 1, 2022 22:30 | August 2, 2022 19:30 | 21h | 2,053 | 16K |
| 5 | September 19, 2022 13:15 | September 19, 2022 19:00 | 5h 45m | 1,945 | 2,933 |
| 6 | November 23, 2022 14:00 | November 23, 2022 17:15 | 3h 15m | 1,891 | 2,633 |
| 7 | November 14, 2022 14:30 | November 14, 2022 17:30 | 3h | 1,816 | 2,427 |
| 8 | July 17, 2022 02:00 | July 18, 2022 01:00 | 23h | 1,812 | 1,338 |
| 9 | June 18, 2022 19:30 | June 19, 2022 03:00 | 7h 30m | 1,745 | 12K |
| 10 | November 25, 2022 09:00 | November 25, 2022 09:15 | 15m | 1,732 | 433 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 96 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2022 | 6.3 hrs | 1.47 | 2.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county