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2023 Westmoreland County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Westmoreland County, PA went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1344th 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 Westmoreland 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 1, 2023 06:30 | April 5, 2023 07:30 | 4d 1h | 16,234 | 147K |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 17:30 | March 9, 2023 09:45 | 5d 16h | 15,331 | 394K |
| 3 | March 25, 2023 07:15 | March 28, 2023 16:15 | 3d 9h | 7,214 | 72K |
| 4 | August 25, 2023 05:15 | August 27, 2023 19:30 | 2d 14h | 6,152 | 44K |
| 5 | July 21, 2023 02:45 | July 22, 2023 17:15 | 1d 14h | 6,132 | 34K |
| 6 | October 21, 2023 20:45 | October 22, 2023 15:30 | 18h 45m | 5,844 | 11K |
| 7 | October 26, 2023 16:30 | November 1, 2023 17:30 | 6d 1h | 3,808 | 21K |
| 8 | January 18, 2023 01:15 | January 18, 2023 07:00 | 5h 45m | 3,330 | 4,382 |
| 9 | July 1, 2023 12:15 | July 4, 2023 01:45 | 2d 13h | 2,959 | 17K |
| 10 | July 13, 2023 23:15 | July 16, 2023 18:15 | 2d 19h | 2,733 | 23K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 205 reached 100+ customers, 43 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 Westmoreland 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| REA Energy Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duquesne Light 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 ÷ 188,408 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. Westmoreland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Westmoreland 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/westmoreland-county