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2023 Luzerne County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Luzerne County, PA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 342K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2252nd 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 Luzerne 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 27, 2023 11:45 | April 27, 2023 18:00 | 6h 15m | 30,510 | 7,662 |
| 2 | January 11, 2023 13:45 | January 11, 2023 21:00 | 7h 15m | 13,641 | 5,640 |
| 3 | September 7, 2023 17:30 | September 9, 2023 20:45 | 2d 3h | 9,137 | 57K |
| 4 | February 21, 2023 19:15 | February 22, 2023 21:30 | 1d 2h | 8,785 | 29K |
| 5 | March 4, 2023 01:00 | March 5, 2023 04:00 | 1d 3h | 5,002 | 16K |
| 6 | September 9, 2023 21:30 | September 12, 2023 00:30 | 2d 3h | 4,436 | 20K |
| 7 | July 22, 2023 19:30 | July 22, 2023 22:45 | 3h 15m | 3,817 | 1,823 |
| 8 | November 4, 2023 22:15 | November 5, 2023 04:00 | 5h 45m | 2,656 | 723 |
| 9 | April 1, 2023 18:30 | April 2, 2023 16:45 | 22h 15m | 2,499 | 11K |
| 10 | April 30, 2023 22:45 | May 2, 2023 04:15 | 1d 5h | 2,349 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 123 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Luzerne 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 |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 0.83 | 85 min | 0.77 |
| Claverack 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 ÷ 164,504 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. Luzerne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luzerne 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/luzerne-county