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2025 Erie County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Erie County, PA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 512K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 9.8 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2025th 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 Erie 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 | August 13, 2025 18:00 | August 13, 2025 19:15 | 1h 15m | 12,739 | 3,186 |
| 2 | May 1, 2025 03:30 | May 1, 2025 04:30 | 1h | 9,039 | 3,326 |
| 3 | May 27, 2025 11:45 | May 29, 2025 02:30 | 1d 14h | 8,299 | 12K |
| 4 | September 4, 2025 12:15 | September 4, 2025 21:30 | 9h 15m | 8,184 | 11K |
| 5 | October 22, 2025 13:00 | October 23, 2025 06:30 | 17h 30m | 7,263 | 15K |
| 6 | September 1, 2025 01:00 | September 1, 2025 08:00 | 7h | 5,950 | 6,765 |
| 7 | June 23, 2025 09:15 | June 25, 2025 06:30 | 1d 21h | 5,852 | 48K |
| 8 | January 6, 2025 21:15 | January 24, 2025 08:15 | 17d 11h | 4,547 | 6,804 |
| 9 | February 25, 2025 12:30 | February 27, 2025 09:45 | 1d 21h | 4,503 | 13K |
| 10 | December 29, 2025 09:30 | December 31, 2025 04:45 | 1d 19h | 4,497 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 197 reached 100+ customers, 39 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 Erie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/erie-county