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2024 Berks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Berks County, PA went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 7.0 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1442nd 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 Berks 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 | August 20, 2024 11:15 | September 13, 2024 02:15 | 23d 15h | 14,556 | 60K |
| 2 | February 13, 2024 09:30 | February 16, 2024 03:45 | 2d 18h | 10,207 | 108K |
| 3 | April 3, 2024 03:45 | April 6, 2024 00:00 | 2d 20h | 8,422 | 91K |
| 4 | February 29, 2024 00:30 | March 2, 2024 03:00 | 2d 2h | 7,269 | 97K |
| 5 | October 13, 2024 19:15 | October 15, 2024 23:15 | 2d 4h | 7,068 | 12K |
| 6 | July 13, 2024 04:45 | July 20, 2024 19:00 | 7d 14h | 6,782 | 112K |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 19:00 | January 19, 2024 17:45 | 9d 22h | 6,702 | 190K |
| 8 | August 16, 2024 13:45 | August 19, 2024 17:45 | 3d 4h | 5,463 | 10K |
| 9 | September 30, 2024 21:00 | October 1, 2024 11:30 | 14h 30m | 5,360 | 8,428 |
| 10 | August 6, 2024 23:00 | August 11, 2024 21:15 | 4d 22h | 4,875 | 66K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 145 reached 100+ customers, 46 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 Berks 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 |
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2024 | 7.6 hrs | 1.25 | 1.5 hrs | 0.66 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2023 | 7.1 hrs | 1.46 | 3.5 hrs | 1.24 |
| Borough of Kutztown - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 219,087 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. Berks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berks 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/berks-county