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2023 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 198K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1356th 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 Columbia 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 | August 7, 2023 21:30 | August 10, 2023 09:15 | 2d 11h | 5,450 | 30K |
| 2 | September 7, 2023 19:45 | September 10, 2023 23:45 | 3d 4h | 3,173 | 44K |
| 3 | August 18, 2023 03:00 | August 18, 2023 22:30 | 19h 30m | 2,708 | 1,642 |
| 4 | January 18, 2023 19:45 | January 19, 2023 01:00 | 5h 15m | 2,141 | 1,748 |
| 5 | April 1, 2023 10:30 | April 3, 2023 00:00 | 1d 13h | 2,027 | 8,999 |
| 6 | May 24, 2023 21:15 | May 25, 2023 01:30 | 4h 15m | 1,935 | 1,565 |
| 7 | January 30, 2023 18:30 | January 30, 2023 19:30 | 1h | 1,906 | 1,906 |
| 8 | March 14, 2023 19:45 | March 15, 2023 05:45 | 10h | 1,833 | 1,226 |
| 9 | December 30, 2023 16:30 | December 30, 2023 16:45 | 15m | 1,741 | 435 |
| 10 | July 25, 2023 15:45 | July 25, 2023 17:45 | 2h | 1,740 | 983 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 91 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Columbia 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 Catawissa | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,125 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county