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2019 Bucks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Bucks County, PA went without power for an average of 17.6 hours, a total of 2.7M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 266th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bucks County, 2019
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 29, 2019 11:15 | November 6, 2019 11:15 | 8d | 45,638 | 766K |
| 2 | July 17, 2019 11:15 | July 27, 2019 18:15 | 10d 7h | 33,738 | 533K |
| 3 | June 26, 2019 10:45 | July 4, 2019 20:30 | 8d 9h | 26,077 | 205K |
| 4 | May 29, 2019 06:00 | June 23, 2019 20:30 | 25d 14h | 19,873 | 374K |
| 5 | February 24, 2019 10:45 | March 1, 2019 01:00 | 4d 14h | 18,515 | 179K |
| 6 | March 3, 2019 20:00 | March 7, 2019 19:45 | 3d 23h | 9,051 | 51K |
| 7 | November 6, 2019 13:30 | November 7, 2019 09:45 | 20h 15m | 7,176 | 6,565 |
| 8 | September 20, 2019 04:45 | September 27, 2019 22:45 | 7d 18h | 5,960 | 7,034 |
| 9 | July 29, 2019 02:45 | August 12, 2019 00:45 | 13d 22h | 5,852 | 77K |
| 10 | January 16, 2019 12:15 | January 18, 2019 01:15 | 1d 13h | 4,750 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 127 reached 100+ customers, 47 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 2019, 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 96% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/pennsylvania/bucks-county