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2023 Bucks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bucks County, PA went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 837K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1380th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bucks County, 2023
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 6, 2023 13:45 | August 17, 2023 04:00 | 10d 14h | 11,878 | 174K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 13:00 | April 4, 2023 04:00 | 2d 15h | 10,878 | 59K |
| 3 | June 25, 2023 18:30 | June 30, 2023 17:45 | 4d 23h | 7,082 | 53K |
| 4 | March 14, 2023 12:30 | March 17, 2023 23:30 | 3d 11h | 4,828 | 23K |
| 5 | July 25, 2023 07:45 | August 5, 2023 00:00 | 10d 16h | 4,699 | 29K |
| 6 | November 18, 2023 05:15 | November 19, 2023 18:30 | 1d 13h | 4,375 | 5,230 |
| 7 | September 6, 2023 08:00 | September 13, 2023 04:15 | 6d 20h | 4,172 | 42K |
| 8 | August 26, 2023 11:00 | August 30, 2023 10:30 | 3d 23h | 3,853 | 8,910 |
| 9 | November 27, 2023 00:15 | November 28, 2023 09:15 | 1d 9h | 3,218 | 4,559 |
| 10 | December 10, 2023 19:30 | December 12, 2023 05:45 | 1d 10h | 2,897 | 6,882 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 155 reached 100+ customers, 34 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 0.80 | 1.5 hrs | 0.64 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2023 | 7.1 hrs | 1.46 | 3.5 hrs | 1.24 |
| PECO Energy Co | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 0.88 | 79 min | 0.76 |
| 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 n/a of Pennsylvania's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/pennsylvania/bucks-county