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2024 Mercer County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Mercer County, PA went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 319K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 7.0 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1317th 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 Mercer 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 27, 2024 21:45 | January 28, 2024 19:00 | 21h 15m | 8,295 | 7,771 |
| 2 | March 11, 2024 06:45 | March 11, 2024 16:45 | 10h | 8,293 | 5,073 |
| 3 | August 6, 2024 09:15 | August 11, 2024 18:15 | 5d 9h | 6,185 | 128K |
| 4 | June 17, 2024 19:00 | June 21, 2024 08:45 | 3d 13h | 3,782 | 8,748 |
| 5 | May 5, 2024 19:45 | May 5, 2024 21:15 | 1h 30m | 3,685 | 2,949 |
| 6 | July 22, 2024 12:45 | July 22, 2024 17:30 | 4h 45m | 3,467 | 4,955 |
| 7 | April 12, 2024 21:45 | April 16, 2024 01:15 | 3d 3h | 3,133 | 27K |
| 8 | December 30, 2024 00:45 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 1d 23h | 2,283 | 24K |
| 9 | January 9, 2024 14:00 | January 11, 2024 06:15 | 1d 16h | 2,235 | 18K |
| 10 | July 16, 2024 13:30 | July 16, 2024 18:15 | 4h 45m | 1,606 | 1,737 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 70 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Mercer 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 Power Co | 2023 | 11.8 hrs | 1.51 | 2.0 hrs | 0.86 |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Grove City - (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 ÷ 48,402 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county