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2022 Lancaster County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lancaster County, PA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 441K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.7 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2011th 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 Lancaster 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 1, 2022 12:45 | July 4, 2022 01:15 | 2d 12h | 10,202 | 61K |
| 2 | March 7, 2022 11:45 | March 9, 2022 04:00 | 1d 16h | 6,470 | 23K |
| 3 | December 22, 2022 22:00 | December 27, 2022 04:00 | 4d 6h | 5,624 | 48K |
| 4 | May 22, 2022 11:30 | May 24, 2022 08:00 | 1d 20h | 4,756 | 8,458 |
| 5 | March 12, 2022 12:00 | March 13, 2022 21:00 | 1d 9h | 4,643 | 30K |
| 6 | September 25, 2022 16:15 | September 26, 2022 09:45 | 17h 30m | 3,306 | 1,083 |
| 7 | July 28, 2022 23:00 | July 29, 2022 11:30 | 12h 30m | 3,248 | 5,801 |
| 8 | June 17, 2022 02:45 | June 17, 2022 03:00 | 15m | 3,115 | 779 |
| 9 | January 16, 2022 23:45 | January 18, 2022 18:15 | 1d 18h | 2,288 | 14K |
| 10 | November 30, 2022 15:30 | December 1, 2022 07:45 | 16h 15m | 2,090 | 3,767 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 186 reached 100+ customers, 46 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 Lancaster 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 Ephrata - (PA) | 2018 | 35 min | 0.53 | 35 min | 0.53 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 156,892 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county