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2023 Franklin County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Franklin County, PA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 162K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2240th 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 Franklin 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 | May 3, 2023 10:30 | May 3, 2023 16:15 | 5h 45m | 7,589 | 25K |
| 2 | August 20, 2023 10:15 | August 21, 2023 03:00 | 16h 45m | 2,439 | 1,306 |
| 3 | February 3, 2023 19:45 | February 4, 2023 07:00 | 11h 15m | 2,269 | 3,695 |
| 4 | February 3, 2023 09:30 | February 3, 2023 18:30 | 9h | 2,133 | 3,705 |
| 5 | July 20, 2023 12:15 | July 22, 2023 16:15 | 2d 4h | 1,680 | 15K |
| 6 | June 16, 2023 12:00 | June 16, 2023 18:00 | 6h | 1,651 | 2,823 |
| 7 | August 2, 2023 13:30 | August 2, 2023 15:45 | 2h 15m | 1,594 | 422 |
| 8 | January 13, 2023 05:30 | January 13, 2023 23:15 | 17h 45m | 1,579 | 8,137 |
| 9 | August 21, 2023 21:00 | August 22, 2023 17:00 | 20h | 1,549 | 3,371 |
| 10 | February 2, 2023 19:45 | February 2, 2023 21:15 | 1h 30m | 1,503 | 1,794 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 75 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Franklin 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 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2023 | 7.0 hrs | 1.41 | 2.7 hrs | 1.03 |
| Borough of Chambersburg | 2023 | 28 min | 0.35 | 9 min | 0.20 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mont Alto Borough | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 76,806 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county