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2023 Northampton County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Northampton County, PA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 757K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1528th 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 Northampton 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 | August 7, 2023 22:00 | August 11, 2023 01:30 | 3d 3h | 19,023 | 258K |
| 2 | September 7, 2023 16:30 | September 10, 2023 18:45 | 3d 2h | 7,514 | 96K |
| 3 | July 14, 2023 13:30 | July 18, 2023 06:00 | 3d 16h | 5,584 | 25K |
| 4 | August 13, 2023 03:15 | August 14, 2023 19:15 | 1d 16h | 5,447 | 10K |
| 5 | September 20, 2023 12:30 | September 20, 2023 13:00 | 30m | 4,573 | 1,232 |
| 6 | May 12, 2023 17:00 | May 14, 2023 16:30 | 1d 23h | 4,307 | 20K |
| 7 | December 28, 2023 00:45 | December 29, 2023 08:45 | 1d 8h | 3,895 | 23K |
| 8 | April 4, 2023 07:45 | April 5, 2023 18:45 | 1d 11h | 3,831 | 18K |
| 9 | June 26, 2023 12:00 | June 29, 2023 18:30 | 3d 6h | 3,643 | 54K |
| 10 | March 1, 2023 14:30 | March 1, 2023 19:30 | 5h | 3,516 | 943 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 134 reached 100+ customers, 37 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Northampton 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 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2023 | 7.1 hrs | 1.46 | 3.5 hrs | 1.24 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 161,848 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county