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2023 Butler County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Butler County, PA went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 900K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 4.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 852nd 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 Butler 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 | April 1, 2023 16:45 | April 7, 2023 06:15 | 5d 13h | 24,378 | 471K |
| 2 | March 25, 2023 11:00 | March 31, 2023 17:00 | 6d 6h | 12,046 | 229K |
| 3 | September 20, 2023 12:15 | September 21, 2023 03:15 | 15h | 8,556 | 14K |
| 4 | October 16, 2023 08:30 | October 16, 2023 08:45 | 15m | 5,207 | 1,302 |
| 5 | July 29, 2023 09:15 | July 29, 2023 10:30 | 1h 15m | 3,718 | 3,312 |
| 6 | October 21, 2023 12:00 | October 21, 2023 16:45 | 4h 45m | 3,260 | 2,492 |
| 7 | October 14, 2023 10:30 | October 14, 2023 15:00 | 4h 30m | 3,232 | 3,093 |
| 8 | July 17, 2023 05:30 | July 18, 2023 17:00 | 1d 11h | 3,124 | 9,127 |
| 9 | December 3, 2023 08:45 | December 4, 2023 00:15 | 15h 30m | 2,384 | 9,733 |
| 10 | April 28, 2023 17:15 | April 29, 2023 02:45 | 9h 30m | 2,323 | 993 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 123 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Penn Power Company | 2023 | 7.0 hrs | 1.41 | 2.7 hrs | 1.03 |
| Pennsylvania Power Co | 2023 | 11.8 hrs | 1.51 | 2.0 hrs | 0.86 |
| 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 n/a of Pennsylvania's customers in 2023; 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, 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/butler-county