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2023 Blair County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Blair County, PA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1965th 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 Blair 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 | May 7, 2023 16:45 | May 8, 2023 04:15 | 11h 30m | 7,951 | 38K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 18:30 | April 5, 2023 20:45 | 4d 2h | 2,834 | 18K |
| 3 | December 21, 2023 13:15 | December 25, 2023 11:00 | 3d 21h | 2,137 | 1,981 |
| 4 | March 3, 2023 20:15 | March 7, 2023 06:15 | 3d 10h | 1,865 | 22K |
| 5 | July 28, 2023 18:00 | July 29, 2023 22:00 | 1d 4h | 1,676 | 4,362 |
| 6 | February 24, 2023 04:15 | February 24, 2023 08:15 | 4h | 1,353 | 1,881 |
| 7 | April 13, 2023 22:15 | April 14, 2023 10:45 | 12h 30m | 1,145 | 4,345 |
| 8 | April 1, 2023 03:30 | April 1, 2023 08:15 | 4h 45m | 1,137 | 5,397 |
| 9 | July 21, 2023 01:30 | July 22, 2023 03:45 | 1d 2h | 1,051 | 7,496 |
| 10 | October 3, 2023 01:30 | October 3, 2023 04:30 | 3h | 1,037 | 270 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 77 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Blair 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy 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 n/a of Pennsylvania's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 69,598 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. Blair County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blair 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/blair-county