County annual report · FIPS 42017
2017 Bucks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bucks County, PA went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 693K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1026th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bucks County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 18, 2017 18:45 | October 18, 2017 19:00 | 15m | 14,785 | 3,696 |
| 2 | March 29, 2017 04:00 | March 30, 2017 18:15 | 1d 14h | 13,685 | 9,919 |
| 3 | December 4, 2017 13:45 | December 7, 2017 02:45 | 2d 13h | 10,700 | 11K |
| 4 | November 18, 2017 10:45 | November 21, 2017 04:30 | 2d 17h | 9,049 | 33K |
| 5 | August 3, 2017 13:15 | August 6, 2017 12:30 | 2d 23h | 7,953 | 39K |
| 6 | January 22, 2017 21:00 | January 25, 2017 04:30 | 2d 7h | 6,464 | 34K |
| 7 | March 13, 2017 08:45 | March 13, 2017 21:15 | 12h 30m | 6,253 | 4,478 |
| 8 | October 29, 2017 01:30 | October 31, 2017 09:30 | 2d 8h | 5,991 | 28K |
| 9 | March 8, 2017 02:15 | March 10, 2017 08:30 | 2d 6h | 5,182 | 13K |
| 10 | December 25, 2017 09:45 | December 27, 2017 10:45 | 2d 1h | 4,687 | 22K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 204 reached 100+ customers, 63 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 0.73 | 70 min | 0.60 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2017 | 3.7 hrs | 1.51 | 2.7 hrs | 1.29 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2017 | 1.5 hrs | 0.87 | 74 min | 0.79 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/pennsylvania/bucks-county