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2016 Butler County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Butler County, PA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 175K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1375th 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 Butler 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 | December 17, 2016 12:00 | December 18, 2016 18:45 | 1d 6h | 3,077 | 2,992 |
| 2 | July 16, 2016 18:45 | July 16, 2016 21:15 | 2h 30m | 3,046 | 1,574 |
| 3 | August 8, 2016 12:15 | August 8, 2016 17:45 | 5h 30m | 2,110 | 559 |
| 4 | July 7, 2016 21:15 | July 8, 2016 23:00 | 1d 1h | 1,987 | 3,739 |
| 5 | July 22, 2016 11:30 | July 23, 2016 00:00 | 12h 30m | 1,959 | 3,342 |
| 6 | March 5, 2016 15:15 | March 5, 2016 17:00 | 1h 45m | 1,957 | 561 |
| 7 | September 8, 2016 23:00 | September 9, 2016 20:15 | 21h 15m | 1,819 | 7,287 |
| 8 | August 14, 2016 18:30 | August 16, 2016 06:30 | 1d 12h | 1,804 | 2,915 |
| 9 | July 24, 2016 19:30 | July 26, 2016 07:15 | 1d 11h | 1,647 | 6,057 |
| 10 | March 3, 2016 14:00 | March 3, 2016 17:45 | 3h 45m | 1,615 | 811 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 111 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.18 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| Pennsylvania Power Co | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.13 | 1.8 hrs | 1.13 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Zelienople - (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 ÷ 91,173 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. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county