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2020 Bucks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bucks County, PA went without power for an average of 30.7 hours, a total of 4.7M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 270th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bucks County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 3, 2020 23:00 | August 15, 2020 02:15 | 11d 3h | 106,525 | 2.4M |
| 2 | June 3, 2020 09:45 | June 9, 2020 06:15 | 5d 20h | 67,756 | 1.4M |
| 3 | August 27, 2020 11:15 | September 3, 2020 08:15 | 6d 21h | 17,283 | 179K |
| 4 | December 24, 2020 17:15 | December 28, 2020 02:15 | 3d 9h | 15,336 | 144K |
| 5 | July 6, 2020 10:45 | July 10, 2020 01:00 | 3d 14h | 8,468 | 38K |
| 6 | April 9, 2020 12:45 | April 12, 2020 19:15 | 3d 6h | 8,168 | 37K |
| 7 | October 29, 2020 13:15 | November 6, 2020 08:30 | 7d 19h | 7,854 | 52K |
| 8 | November 15, 2020 14:30 | November 30, 2020 05:30 | 14d 15h | 7,517 | 56K |
| 9 | July 19, 2020 16:15 | July 29, 2020 06:15 | 9d 14h | 6,746 | 40K |
| 10 | June 2, 2020 07:30 | June 3, 2020 02:45 | 19h 15m | 5,692 | 1,745 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 152 reached 100+ customers, 41 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.88 | 69 min | 0.69 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2020 | 6.6 hrs | 1.65 | 2.4 hrs | 1.14 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2020 | 10.5 hrs | 1.52 | 76 min | 0.82 |
| 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 98% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/pennsylvania/bucks-county