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2024 Fayette County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Fayette County, PA went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 371K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 7.0 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1477th 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 Fayette 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 | April 2, 2024 07:45 | April 2, 2024 08:00 | 15m | 6,790 | 1,698 |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 07:30 | January 12, 2024 00:45 | 2d 17h | 5,129 | 70K |
| 3 | January 12, 2024 17:15 | January 14, 2024 20:15 | 2d 3h | 4,610 | 55K |
| 4 | May 27, 2024 00:15 | May 28, 2024 20:45 | 1d 20h | 2,462 | 28K |
| 5 | December 3, 2024 09:45 | December 3, 2024 17:45 | 8h | 2,420 | 1,497 |
| 6 | December 11, 2024 03:45 | December 11, 2024 06:45 | 3h | 2,416 | 7,248 |
| 7 | December 13, 2024 01:15 | December 13, 2024 01:45 | 30m | 2,416 | 1,208 |
| 8 | April 26, 2024 12:00 | April 26, 2024 15:45 | 3h 45m | 2,375 | 2,425 |
| 9 | September 21, 2024 19:15 | September 23, 2024 22:15 | 2d 3h | 1,979 | 31K |
| 10 | February 28, 2024 13:00 | February 29, 2024 03:30 | 14h 30m | 1,891 | 6,502 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 101 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Fayette 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 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2023 | 7.0 hrs | 1.41 | 2.7 hrs | 1.03 |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, 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 ÷ 66,012 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county