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2024 Bedford County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bedford County, PA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 128K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 7.0 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1675th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bedford County, 2024
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 28, 2024 21:45 | March 1, 2024 01:30 | 1d 3h | 2,531 | 11K |
| 2 | March 6, 2024 13:30 | March 6, 2024 14:15 | 45m | 2,364 | 1,360 |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 14:00 | January 11, 2024 18:15 | 2d 4h | 2,082 | 23K |
| 4 | January 31, 2024 14:45 | January 31, 2024 18:00 | 3h 15m | 1,512 | 3,024 |
| 5 | April 19, 2024 14:45 | April 20, 2024 09:00 | 18h 15m | 1,502 | 16K |
| 6 | December 13, 2024 15:45 | December 13, 2024 16:00 | 15m | 1,491 | 373 |
| 7 | May 1, 2024 14:30 | May 1, 2024 17:15 | 2h 45m | 1,249 | 620 |
| 8 | March 21, 2024 12:30 | March 22, 2024 01:00 | 12h 30m | 1,216 | 4,121 |
| 9 | April 12, 2024 13:15 | April 14, 2024 02:45 | 1d 13h | 1,044 | 7,903 |
| 10 | March 11, 2024 06:00 | March 11, 2024 23:45 | 17h 45m | 1,040 | 3,394 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 48 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Bedford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2024 | 6.7 hrs | 1.85 | 3.7 hrs | 1.49 |
| 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 |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Enterprise R E C, 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 26,999 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford County, PA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/pennsylvania/bedford-county