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2022 Bucks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Bucks County, PA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 808K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.7 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1347th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bucks County, 2022
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 8, 2022 09:45 | September 10, 2022 06:45 | 1d 21h | 12,117 | 7,238 |
| 2 | May 6, 2022 21:45 | May 10, 2022 01:45 | 3d 4h | 9,675 | 57K |
| 3 | December 15, 2022 19:15 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | 16d 4h | 8,829 | 154K |
| 4 | February 17, 2022 10:15 | February 21, 2022 01:15 | 3d 15h | 6,283 | 75K |
| 5 | March 7, 2022 13:45 | March 11, 2022 09:00 | 3d 19h | 5,663 | 57K |
| 6 | October 1, 2022 07:00 | October 4, 2022 07:30 | 3d | 4,983 | 15K |
| 7 | May 22, 2022 10:00 | May 24, 2022 08:00 | 1d 22h | 3,867 | 2,560 |
| 8 | June 16, 2022 10:00 | June 17, 2022 08:00 | 22h | 3,525 | 11K |
| 9 | May 14, 2022 22:30 | May 18, 2022 06:45 | 3d 8h | 3,210 | 4,652 |
| 10 | June 13, 2022 11:45 | June 13, 2022 22:15 | 10h 30m | 2,882 | 1,161 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 189 reached 100+ customers, 48 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.4 hrs | 0.90 | 89 min | 0.74 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2022 | 4.5 hrs | 1.50 | 2.8 hrs | 1.24 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2022 | 1.6 hrs | 0.86 | 82 min | 0.78 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/pennsylvania/bucks-county