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2023 Forest County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Forest County, PA went without power for an average of 59.2 hours, a total of 204K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 77th 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 Forest 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 18:00 | April 5, 2023 21:30 | 4d 3h | 4,085 | 120K |
| 2 | March 25, 2023 11:30 | March 29, 2023 00:30 | 3d 13h | 2,822 | 26K |
| 3 | September 7, 2023 12:45 | September 7, 2023 17:00 | 4h 15m | 1,790 | 781 |
| 4 | June 10, 2023 19:00 | June 10, 2023 23:00 | 4h | 1,500 | 531 |
| 5 | August 27, 2023 05:30 | August 27, 2023 22:00 | 16h 30m | 1,262 | 9,284 |
| 6 | July 5, 2023 08:30 | July 5, 2023 14:30 | 6h | 763 | 2,205 |
| 7 | September 26, 2023 15:00 | September 26, 2023 18:00 | 3h | 654 | 1,017 |
| 8 | September 26, 2023 19:30 | September 26, 2023 22:30 | 3h | 654 | 1,962 |
| 9 | March 3, 2023 23:45 | March 5, 2023 02:15 | 1d 2h | 613 | 4,705 |
| 10 | September 6, 2023 03:15 | September 6, 2023 04:00 | 45m | 551 | 389 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 45 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Forest 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren 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 ÷ 3,447 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. Forest County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forest 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/forest-county