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2023 Berks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Berks County, PA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1415th 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 Berks 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 | April 22, 2023 03:45 | April 24, 2023 18:30 | 2d 14h | 15,532 | 99K |
| 2 | August 11, 2023 18:30 | August 16, 2023 07:15 | 4d 12h | 9,150 | 143K |
| 3 | March 3, 2023 20:30 | March 5, 2023 22:30 | 2d 2h | 6,887 | 19K |
| 4 | September 7, 2023 12:00 | September 9, 2023 22:15 | 2d 10h | 6,538 | 114K |
| 5 | July 23, 2023 21:45 | July 26, 2023 08:45 | 2d 11h | 5,108 | 13K |
| 6 | September 18, 2023 05:30 | September 18, 2023 22:15 | 16h 45m | 4,716 | 3,800 |
| 7 | July 2, 2023 15:30 | July 4, 2023 00:30 | 1d 9h | 4,222 | 4,661 |
| 8 | August 6, 2023 20:30 | August 11, 2023 03:15 | 4d 6h | 3,906 | 80K |
| 9 | April 18, 2023 02:45 | April 18, 2023 19:45 | 17h | 3,862 | 3,015 |
| 10 | July 7, 2023 10:45 | July 13, 2023 05:15 | 5d 18h | 3,719 | 60K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 188 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 Berks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 0.80 | 1.5 hrs | 0.64 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2023 | 7.1 hrs | 1.46 | 3.5 hrs | 1.24 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Kutztown - (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 n/a of Pennsylvania's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 219,087 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. Berks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berks 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/berks-county