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2021 Bucks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bucks County, PA went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.1 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 991st of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bucks County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 1, 2021 05:30 | September 7, 2021 05:45 | 6d | 14,566 | 269K |
| 2 | June 30, 2021 19:45 | July 23, 2021 10:30 | 22d 14h | 9,145 | 163K |
| 3 | July 23, 2021 13:00 | August 1, 2021 23:15 | 9d 10h | 7,061 | 61K |
| 4 | February 20, 2021 00:30 | February 25, 2021 23:45 | 5d 23h | 6,761 | 8,308 |
| 5 | November 18, 2021 12:45 | November 22, 2021 16:30 | 4d 3h | 6,288 | 11K |
| 6 | October 25, 2021 11:00 | November 6, 2021 16:30 | 12d 5h | 5,849 | 81K |
| 7 | April 30, 2021 07:30 | May 4, 2021 10:30 | 4d 3h | 4,880 | 47K |
| 8 | March 23, 2021 23:30 | March 31, 2021 02:15 | 7d 2h | 4,628 | 40K |
| 9 | November 12, 2021 09:15 | November 16, 2021 19:45 | 4d 10h | 4,375 | 24K |
| 10 | December 10, 2021 19:00 | December 13, 2021 08:45 | 2d 13h | 3,148 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 138 reached 100+ customers, 40 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 0.93 | 85 min | 0.64 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2021 | 5.1 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.01 | 88 min | 0.83 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/pennsylvania/bucks-county