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2023 Centre County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Centre County, PA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 263K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2044th 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 Centre 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 1, 2023 19:15 | April 6, 2023 18:00 | 4d 22h | 8,654 | 99K |
| 2 | July 14, 2023 18:30 | July 18, 2023 01:45 | 3d 7h | 3,731 | 27K |
| 3 | July 2, 2023 12:00 | July 3, 2023 11:00 | 23h | 2,589 | 4,944 |
| 4 | August 7, 2023 10:15 | August 9, 2023 17:30 | 2d 7h | 2,111 | 12K |
| 5 | March 19, 2023 20:30 | March 20, 2023 01:15 | 4h 45m | 1,748 | 2,020 |
| 6 | June 22, 2023 05:15 | June 22, 2023 18:45 | 13h 30m | 1,597 | 1,185 |
| 7 | February 28, 2023 12:30 | February 28, 2023 19:15 | 6h 45m | 1,596 | 884 |
| 8 | August 16, 2023 12:00 | August 17, 2023 01:00 | 13h | 1,555 | 3,177 |
| 9 | August 25, 2023 07:30 | August 27, 2023 18:15 | 2d 10h | 1,551 | 987 |
| 10 | March 22, 2023 13:00 | March 22, 2023 16:45 | 3h 45m | 1,539 | 824 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 89 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Centre 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric 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 ÷ 96,428 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. Centre County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Centre 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/centre-county