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2023 Potter County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Potter County, PA went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 814th 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 Potter 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 | February 7, 2023 23:45 | February 8, 2023 04:30 | 4h 45m | 1,154 | 5,482 |
| 2 | July 15, 2023 21:45 | July 15, 2023 22:00 | 15m | 1,150 | 288 |
| 3 | March 22, 2023 13:00 | March 22, 2023 23:15 | 10h 15m | 1,023 | 6,292 |
| 4 | March 7, 2023 03:45 | March 7, 2023 22:30 | 18h 45m | 948 | 11K |
| 5 | May 20, 2023 12:30 | May 21, 2023 01:45 | 13h 15m | 929 | 2,736 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 19:45 | April 4, 2023 10:30 | 2d 14h | 877 | 22K |
| 7 | March 17, 2023 07:30 | March 17, 2023 16:15 | 8h 45m | 761 | 6,577 |
| 8 | March 30, 2023 13:15 | March 30, 2023 16:30 | 3h 15m | 760 | 2,393 |
| 9 | April 17, 2023 04:45 | April 17, 2023 15:30 | 10h 45m | 759 | 8,154 |
| 10 | April 11, 2023 00:45 | April 11, 2023 03:30 | 2h 45m | 751 | 2,065 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 25 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Potter 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (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 ÷ 9,352 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county