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2023 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 16.0 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 543rd 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 Fayette 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 | March 3, 2023 18:00 | March 8, 2023 00:15 | 4d 6h | 25,079 | 541K |
| 2 | August 25, 2023 06:30 | August 28, 2023 22:30 | 3d 16h | 11,291 | 242K |
| 3 | July 21, 2023 03:30 | July 22, 2023 00:30 | 21h | 4,116 | 12K |
| 4 | January 25, 2023 12:15 | January 27, 2023 04:30 | 1d 16h | 3,912 | 26K |
| 5 | December 19, 2023 05:30 | December 19, 2023 17:30 | 12h | 3,208 | 27K |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 18:00 | April 3, 2023 22:15 | 2d 4h | 3,182 | 22K |
| 7 | December 14, 2023 19:15 | December 14, 2023 22:00 | 2h 45m | 3,064 | 776 |
| 8 | December 11, 2023 14:00 | December 11, 2023 14:45 | 45m | 3,063 | 2,297 |
| 9 | April 17, 2023 17:30 | April 17, 2023 17:45 | 15m | 2,421 | 605 |
| 10 | November 21, 2023 13:00 | November 22, 2023 04:30 | 15h 30m | 2,411 | 4,077 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 106 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2023 | 7.0 hrs | 1.41 | 2.7 hrs | 1.03 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec 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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county