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2024 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 20.3 hours, a total of 714K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 7.0 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 498th 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 Columbia 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 | June 26, 2024 21:45 | July 1, 2024 07:45 | 4d 10h | 12,315 | 274K |
| 2 | February 13, 2024 09:15 | February 16, 2024 19:00 | 3d 9h | 9,117 | 129K |
| 3 | August 6, 2024 19:45 | August 8, 2024 15:15 | 1d 19h | 4,842 | 33K |
| 4 | January 14, 2024 15:15 | January 17, 2024 02:00 | 2d 10h | 4,431 | 39K |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 19:00 | January 12, 2024 01:30 | 2d 6h | 4,207 | 47K |
| 6 | June 22, 2024 21:00 | June 25, 2024 06:45 | 2d 9h | 3,093 | 21K |
| 7 | July 15, 2024 01:15 | July 15, 2024 10:30 | 9h 15m | 3,066 | 1,911 |
| 8 | January 30, 2024 13:30 | January 30, 2024 16:30 | 3h | 3,053 | 1,542 |
| 9 | September 19, 2024 05:45 | September 19, 2024 06:00 | 15m | 2,850 | 713 |
| 10 | April 14, 2024 23:15 | April 16, 2024 08:15 | 1d 9h | 2,849 | 22K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 97 reached 100+ customers, 24 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Columbia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2024 | 7.6 hrs | 1.25 | 1.5 hrs | 0.66 |
| Borough of Catawissa | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,125 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county