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2023 Carbon County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Carbon County, PA went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 183K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1341st 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 Carbon 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 | September 23, 2023 08:15 | September 24, 2023 19:15 | 1d 11h | 5,440 | 26K |
| 2 | December 28, 2023 03:00 | December 29, 2023 01:30 | 22h 30m | 3,086 | 17K |
| 3 | August 26, 2023 19:15 | August 26, 2023 19:30 | 15m | 2,994 | 749 |
| 4 | August 16, 2023 01:45 | August 16, 2023 10:30 | 8h 45m | 2,987 | 1,180 |
| 5 | December 18, 2023 05:15 | December 18, 2023 21:45 | 16h 30m | 2,826 | 1,283 |
| 6 | August 18, 2023 08:15 | August 18, 2023 21:30 | 13h 15m | 2,673 | 13K |
| 7 | January 20, 2023 06:45 | January 20, 2023 11:15 | 4h 30m | 2,181 | 2,592 |
| 8 | December 11, 2023 01:30 | December 11, 2023 12:15 | 10h 45m | 2,108 | 1,933 |
| 9 | April 22, 2023 15:45 | April 24, 2023 07:00 | 1d 15h | 2,055 | 15K |
| 10 | June 2, 2023 18:30 | June 3, 2023 01:15 | 6h 45m | 1,935 | 5,335 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 80 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Carbon 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 |
| Borough of Lehighton - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Weatherly - (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 ÷ 32,206 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. Carbon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carbon 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/carbon-county