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2023 Bedford County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bedford County, PA went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1638th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bedford County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 4, 2023 00:45 | March 7, 2023 02:45 | 3d 2h | 2,179 | 31K |
| 2 | April 6, 2023 12:45 | April 6, 2023 23:00 | 10h 15m | 1,515 | 1,175 |
| 3 | May 10, 2023 13:00 | May 10, 2023 15:15 | 2h 15m | 1,492 | 1,871 |
| 4 | August 23, 2023 13:30 | August 23, 2023 16:45 | 3h 15m | 1,255 | 3,910 |
| 5 | October 18, 2023 13:30 | October 18, 2023 18:30 | 5h | 1,253 | 4,700 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 18:30 | April 3, 2023 22:45 | 2d 4h | 1,105 | 4,341 |
| 7 | June 14, 2023 13:30 | June 14, 2023 23:45 | 10h 15m | 911 | 3,973 |
| 8 | June 14, 2023 02:30 | June 14, 2023 06:00 | 3h 30m | 858 | 3,003 |
| 9 | December 19, 2023 15:00 | December 19, 2023 20:45 | 5h 45m | 759 | 2,799 |
| 10 | January 18, 2023 15:00 | January 18, 2023 19:15 | 4h 15m | 734 | 785 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 54 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Bedford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 8.2 hrs | 2.05 | 3.8 hrs | 1.61 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2023 | 7.0 hrs | 1.41 | 2.7 hrs | 1.03 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Enterprise R E C, 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 n/a of Pennsylvania's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 26,999 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford County, PA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/pennsylvania/bedford-county