County annual report · FIPS 42019
2019 Butler County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Butler County, PA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 456K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.7 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1096th 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 Butler 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 | February 24, 2019 09:15 | March 2, 2019 05:15 | 5d 20h | 9,766 | 211K |
| 2 | June 8, 2019 15:45 | June 9, 2019 01:00 | 9h 15m | 9,369 | 3,501 |
| 3 | June 24, 2019 12:00 | June 26, 2019 19:00 | 2d 7h | 3,569 | 15K |
| 4 | May 28, 2019 16:30 | May 31, 2019 06:45 | 2d 14h | 3,381 | 26K |
| 5 | November 17, 2019 12:45 | November 17, 2019 14:30 | 1h 45m | 3,336 | 3,355 |
| 6 | February 14, 2019 06:30 | February 14, 2019 15:15 | 8h 45m | 2,868 | 16K |
| 7 | May 31, 2019 11:45 | May 31, 2019 23:30 | 11h 45m | 1,853 | 5,359 |
| 8 | March 22, 2019 20:00 | March 23, 2019 01:15 | 5h 15m | 1,829 | 1,112 |
| 9 | January 1, 2019 04:00 | January 2, 2019 12:15 | 1d 8h | 1,739 | 12K |
| 10 | November 7, 2019 15:15 | November 8, 2019 00:30 | 9h 15m | 1,666 | 3,862 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 129 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.44 | 2.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| Pennsylvania Power Co | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.56 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| 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 96% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2019; 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, 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/butler-county