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2024 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 7.0 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1153rd 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 Erie 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 | January 9, 2024 09:45 | January 16, 2024 03:45 | 6d 18h | 25,425 | 659K |
| 2 | March 9, 2024 09:30 | March 9, 2024 23:45 | 14h 15m | 13,639 | 19K |
| 3 | August 17, 2024 18:45 | August 20, 2024 08:00 | 2d 13h | 12,627 | 55K |
| 4 | December 30, 2024 02:30 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 1d 21h | 9,694 | 107K |
| 5 | November 22, 2024 12:15 | November 26, 2024 22:15 | 4d 10h | 7,768 | 12K |
| 6 | July 13, 2024 04:00 | July 13, 2024 06:15 | 2h 15m | 7,754 | 2,093 |
| 7 | March 5, 2024 21:30 | March 7, 2024 03:15 | 1d 5h | 5,659 | 7,566 |
| 8 | December 5, 2024 10:15 | December 6, 2024 02:15 | 16h | 4,366 | 8,157 |
| 9 | November 17, 2024 00:45 | November 17, 2024 03:45 | 3h | 4,341 | 3,987 |
| 10 | April 12, 2024 03:30 | April 14, 2024 04:15 | 2d | 4,303 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 191 reached 100+ customers, 42 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Erie 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 |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Girard - (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 ÷ 164,700 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county