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2023 Somerset County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Somerset County, PA went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1572nd 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 Somerset 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 | March 3, 2023 17:45 | March 7, 2023 17:45 | 4d | 4,126 | 50K |
| 2 | August 25, 2023 08:00 | August 28, 2023 11:45 | 3d 3h | 3,580 | 13K |
| 3 | April 11, 2023 19:15 | April 11, 2023 23:45 | 4h 30m | 2,810 | 1,676 |
| 4 | June 8, 2023 11:00 | June 8, 2023 15:45 | 4h 45m | 2,302 | 1,335 |
| 5 | February 23, 2023 05:30 | February 23, 2023 16:45 | 11h 15m | 1,895 | 2,258 |
| 6 | February 21, 2023 05:45 | February 21, 2023 07:00 | 1h 15m | 1,732 | 1,301 |
| 7 | July 20, 2023 21:15 | July 21, 2023 21:00 | 23h 45m | 1,710 | 4,378 |
| 8 | May 2, 2023 01:15 | May 2, 2023 02:45 | 1h 30m | 1,586 | 796 |
| 9 | November 10, 2023 05:00 | November 10, 2023 15:00 | 10h | 1,570 | 2,843 |
| 10 | August 7, 2023 18:45 | August 8, 2023 23:00 | 1d 4h | 1,529 | 1,109 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 70 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Somerset 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 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Berlin - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hooversville Boro Elec Lgt 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 ÷ 34,025 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county