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2015 Bucks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Bucks County, PA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 633K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 669th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bucks County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 7, 2015 14:15 | May 7, 2015 22:30 | 8h 15m | 10,714 | 3,606 |
| 2 | February 2, 2015 22:15 | February 4, 2015 00:15 | 1d 2h | 5,672 | 12K |
| 3 | November 14, 2015 11:45 | November 14, 2015 18:45 | 7h | 5,411 | 1,416 |
| 4 | April 20, 2015 09:15 | April 21, 2015 18:15 | 1d 9h | 5,105 | 10K |
| 5 | March 10, 2015 11:15 | March 12, 2015 01:00 | 1d 13h | 5,073 | 7,821 |
| 6 | September 29, 2015 12:15 | September 29, 2015 16:45 | 4h 30m | 4,926 | 1,568 |
| 7 | September 30, 2015 15:15 | October 8, 2015 01:45 | 7d 10h | 4,901 | 24K |
| 8 | December 23, 2015 20:45 | December 24, 2015 21:30 | 1d | 4,824 | 8,107 |
| 9 | September 14, 2015 08:15 | September 16, 2015 05:30 | 1d 21h | 4,721 | 4,488 |
| 10 | August 1, 2015 08:15 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 3d 9h | 4,589 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 270 reached 100+ customers, 91 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 Bucks County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 86 min | 0.74 | 76 min | 0.67 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2015 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2015 | 3.8 hrs | 0.94 | 65 min | 0.75 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Perkasie - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Quakertown - (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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 152,767 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. Bucks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bucks County, PA annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/pennsylvania/bucks-county