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2022 Lehigh County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lehigh County, PA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 496K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.7 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2170th 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 Lehigh 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 | November 7, 2022 09:45 | November 8, 2022 00:15 | 14h 30m | 28,690 | 34K |
| 2 | December 22, 2022 21:30 | December 28, 2022 00:00 | 5d 2h | 8,415 | 81K |
| 3 | March 7, 2022 19:15 | March 12, 2022 12:00 | 4d 16h | 7,998 | 51K |
| 4 | February 22, 2022 20:15 | February 23, 2022 07:30 | 11h 15m | 6,342 | 2,890 |
| 5 | February 18, 2022 03:15 | February 20, 2022 13:45 | 2d 10h | 5,773 | 58K |
| 6 | December 3, 2022 13:00 | December 3, 2022 22:45 | 9h 45m | 4,290 | 4,922 |
| 7 | September 19, 2022 15:15 | September 20, 2022 21:30 | 1d 6h | 4,267 | 2,567 |
| 8 | September 5, 2022 22:45 | September 8, 2022 09:15 | 2d 10h | 3,771 | 8,604 |
| 9 | February 2, 2022 10:00 | February 2, 2022 10:15 | 15m | 3,160 | 790 |
| 10 | April 22, 2022 06:00 | April 22, 2022 07:45 | 1h 45m | 2,873 | 1,840 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 180 reached 100+ customers, 50 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 Lehigh 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 212,008 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. Lehigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lehigh 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/lehigh-county