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2025 Columbia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Columbia County, PA went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 183K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 9.8 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1441st of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2025
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 15, 2025 13:30 | April 17, 2025 00:30 | 1d 11h | 3,030 | 8,738 |
| 2 | July 13, 2025 00:15 | July 13, 2025 03:00 | 2h 45m | 2,749 | 1,045 |
| 3 | July 11, 2025 21:30 | July 12, 2025 00:15 | 2h 45m | 2,623 | 3,946 |
| 4 | October 15, 2025 18:45 | October 15, 2025 21:30 | 2h 45m | 2,608 | 788 |
| 5 | July 14, 2025 12:30 | July 14, 2025 18:45 | 6h 15m | 2,526 | 3,785 |
| 6 | April 30, 2025 00:00 | May 1, 2025 09:00 | 1d 9h | 2,324 | 16K |
| 7 | December 19, 2025 11:00 | December 22, 2025 02:00 | 2d 15h | 2,140 | 22K |
| 8 | March 16, 2025 16:15 | March 18, 2025 01:00 | 1d 8h | 2,030 | 16K |
| 9 | September 5, 2025 11:45 | September 5, 2025 23:45 | 12h | 1,836 | 2,032 |
| 10 | June 15, 2025 08:45 | June 16, 2025 04:00 | 19h 15m | 1,705 | 594 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 87 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/pennsylvania/columbia-county