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2023 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 707K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1613th 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 Erie 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 9, 2023 10:30 | August 9, 2023 21:45 | 11h 15m | 13,465 | 21K |
| 2 | November 1, 2023 04:15 | November 2, 2023 05:30 | 1d 1h | 10,729 | 30K |
| 3 | July 20, 2023 18:15 | July 23, 2023 01:45 | 2d 7h | 10,259 | 49K |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 04:00 | April 4, 2023 08:45 | 3d 4h | 9,032 | 93K |
| 5 | March 25, 2023 11:30 | March 28, 2023 07:30 | 2d 20h | 8,711 | 99K |
| 6 | May 15, 2023 14:15 | May 16, 2023 00:15 | 10h | 7,660 | 3,900 |
| 7 | May 20, 2023 03:15 | May 20, 2023 16:30 | 13h 15m | 7,545 | 27K |
| 8 | March 23, 2023 13:15 | March 24, 2023 00:15 | 11h | 6,375 | 8,125 |
| 9 | November 6, 2023 13:00 | November 7, 2023 00:00 | 11h | 6,130 | 3,217 |
| 10 | September 4, 2023 12:15 | September 6, 2023 02:15 | 1d 14h | 5,251 | 3,680 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 210 reached 100+ customers, 46 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Erie 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county