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2023 Lackawanna County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lackawanna County, PA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 233K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2309th 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 Lackawanna 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 | November 7, 2023 12:00 | November 7, 2023 16:30 | 4h 30m | 3,285 | 900 |
| 2 | July 20, 2023 12:15 | July 20, 2023 15:30 | 3h 15m | 2,994 | 1,594 |
| 3 | September 9, 2023 21:15 | September 11, 2023 06:30 | 1d 9h | 2,961 | 32K |
| 4 | December 28, 2023 04:00 | December 28, 2023 22:30 | 18h 30m | 2,602 | 6,325 |
| 5 | March 4, 2023 00:45 | March 5, 2023 00:15 | 23h 30m | 2,592 | 19K |
| 6 | January 25, 2023 22:45 | January 26, 2023 10:45 | 12h | 2,578 | 5,744 |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 15:15 | April 3, 2023 02:00 | 1d 10h | 2,572 | 4,336 |
| 8 | April 17, 2023 10:45 | April 17, 2023 14:45 | 4h | 2,239 | 637 |
| 9 | December 11, 2023 08:00 | December 12, 2023 18:00 | 1d 10h | 2,235 | 10K |
| 10 | July 21, 2023 18:45 | July 21, 2023 20:15 | 1h 30m | 2,230 | 845 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 128 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Lackawanna 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 |
| Claverack Rural Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Blakely - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Olyphant - (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 ÷ 119,979 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. Lackawanna County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lackawanna 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/lackawanna-county