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2018 Bucks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bucks County, PA went without power for an average of 35.1 hours, a total of 5.4M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 8.3 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 168th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bucks County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 15, 2018 10:00 | 9d 6h | 94,231 | 1.8M |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 07:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 17h | 89,689 | 2.8M |
| 3 | July 2, 2018 12:00 | July 10, 2018 03:00 | 7d 15h | 10,165 | 103K |
| 4 | August 27, 2018 12:00 | August 29, 2018 09:45 | 1d 21h | 9,195 | 28K |
| 5 | June 1, 2018 02:30 | June 5, 2018 06:00 | 4d 3h | 7,710 | 17K |
| 6 | July 19, 2018 00:15 | August 8, 2018 10:15 | 20d 10h | 6,055 | 96K |
| 7 | April 13, 2018 17:45 | April 14, 2018 17:45 | 1d | 5,958 | 19K |
| 8 | July 16, 2018 02:30 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 2d 20h | 5,522 | 8,127 |
| 9 | April 14, 2018 19:30 | April 17, 2018 05:00 | 2d 9h | 5,485 | 24K |
| 10 | April 23, 2018 11:00 | April 24, 2018 07:30 | 20h 30m | 5,253 | 7,265 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 148 reached 100+ customers, 64 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 6.6 hrs | 1.05 | 81 min | 0.73 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2018 | 22.6 hrs | 2.00 | 2.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2018 | 10.7 hrs | 1.51 | 88 min | 0.90 |
| 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 95% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/pennsylvania/bucks-county