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Who serves Potter County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include FirstEnergy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Potter County, PA
Last significant outage: Sep 13, 2026 — peaked at 309 customers, restored in ~5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 4 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Potter County, PA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
199 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
4.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~2,763 customers out in February 2018, restored after about 3.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Potter County include Coudersport, Shinglehouse, Galeton, Ulysses, Austin, Oswayo, Abbott and Allegany. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
