County annual report · FIPS 42017
2016 Bucks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bucks County, PA went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 502nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bucks County, 2016
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 2, 2016 13:45 | April 6, 2016 00:45 | 3d 11h | 33,836 | 213K |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 21:30 | February 27, 2016 09:00 | 2d 11h | 13,080 | 109K |
| 3 | August 12, 2016 21:00 | August 16, 2016 02:15 | 3d 5h | 13,059 | 56K |
| 4 | May 3, 2016 03:45 | May 4, 2016 04:15 | 1d | 12,188 | 11K |
| 5 | January 25, 2016 10:45 | January 25, 2016 18:00 | 7h 15m | 9,852 | 6,843 |
| 6 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | December 2, 2016 02:00 | 10d 12h | 9,348 | 41K |
| 7 | June 6, 2016 10:45 | June 10, 2016 16:15 | 4d 5h | 9,208 | 22K |
| 8 | December 12, 2016 07:00 | December 16, 2016 23:00 | 4d 16h | 7,239 | 20K |
| 9 | August 16, 2016 10:45 | August 18, 2016 23:45 | 2d 13h | 7,218 | 30K |
| 10 | November 19, 2016 04:15 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 2d 8h | 7,139 | 24K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 191 reached 100+ customers, 75 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 0.80 | 71 min | 0.70 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | 1.48 | 2.5 hrs | 1.35 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 76 min | 0.83 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/pennsylvania/bucks-county