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Power outage history

Bucks County Pennsylvania

10.0hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

16th most of 67 in Pennsylvania 1.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 2, 2018 36% of customers out · 90% back in 2.0 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 10.0h / yr State average 6.0 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 1.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 30hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 3.9days Hurricane Isaias, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 90% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2018 21 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 250,540 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Bucks's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 21 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bucks, hours without power per customer

BucksUS median countyPennsylvania average

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began	Storm	Peak out	Share	Lasted	90% restored	Customer-hours
Mar 2, 2018	Winter storm	89,689	36%	3.3 d	2.0 d	2.8M
Aug 4, 2020	Hurricane Isaias	106,525	43%	3.9 d	45 h	2.3M
Mar 7, 2018	Winter storm	94,231	38%	2.1 d	32 h	1.7M
Jun 19, 2025	Thunderstorms	74,988	30%	3.2 d	40 h	1.4M
Jun 3, 2020	Thunderstorms	67,756	27%	2.3 d	37 h	1.3M
Nov 1, 2019	Thunderstorms	45,638	18%	36 h	25 h	721k
Jul 22, 2019	Thunderstorms	33,738	13%	29 h	26 h	419k
Feb 16, 2025	No storm report	32,950	13%	38 h	27 h	380k
May 29, 2019	Thunderstorms	19,873	8%	32 h	30 h	279k
Sep 1, 2021	Hurricane Ida	14,566	6%	27 h	34 h	204k
Apr 3, 2016	No storm report	33,836	14%	13 h	9.8 h	179k
Jun 29, 2019	Thunderstorms	26,077	10%	15 h	11 h	162k
Jan 9, 2024	Flooding	15,392	6%	20 h	19 h	160k
Apr 3, 2024	No storm report	9,553	4%	26 h	29 h	145k
Feb 25, 2019	Windstorm	18,515	7%	19 h	20 h	137k
Jul 16, 2024	Thunderstorms	7,565	3%	30 h	39 h	129k
Aug 28, 2020	Thunderstorms	17,283	7%	18 h	18 h	126k
Dec 24, 2020	No storm report	15,336	6%	13 h	13 h	119k
Aug 7, 2023	Thunderstorms	11,878	5%	18 h	22 h	113k
Dec 19, 2025	No storm report	9,956	4%	21 h	30 h	94k
Feb 24, 2016	No storm report	13,080	5%	14 h	15 h	89k
Dec 23, 2022	Winter storm	8,829	4%	12 h	20 h	57k
Feb 28, 2024	No storm report	5,458	2%	15 h	24 h	49k
Oct 29, 2021	Flooding	5,849	2%	13 h	21 h	45k
Apr 1, 2023	Thunderstorms	10,878	4%	7.5 h	8.0 h	43k
Mar 5, 2018	No storm report	3,245	1%	15 h	–	42k
Aug 12, 2016	Thunderstorms	13,059	5%	5.2 h	5.5 h	38k
Feb 18, 2022	No storm report	6,283	3%	9.5 h	19 h	38k
Jul 17, 2019	Thunderstorms	8,519	3%	7.0 h	4.5 h	36k
Aug 9, 2024	Hurricane Debby	7,845	3%	9.8 h	11 h	36k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Bucks from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Thunderstorms 36%
Winter storm 33%
Tropical storm 18%
No storm on record 9.8%
Flooding 1.7%
Windstorm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bucks

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Pennsylvania territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility	Type	Outage min / yr	Excl. major storms	Outages / yr	Residential ¢/kWh	Customers
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co	Investor Owned	647	217	2.02	18.8	1.8M
PECO Energy Co	Investor Owned	328	59	1.12	18.0	1.5M
PPL Electric Utilities Corp	Investor Owned	198	116	0.97	18.6	1.3M
Borough of Quakertown	PA	–	–	–	12.6	38k
Borough of Perkasie	PA	45	10	0.30	–	37k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Hunterdon, NJ 18 h
Warren, NJ 15 h
Montgomery 13 h
Bucks (this county) 10.0 h
Burlington, NJ 6.7 h
Northampton 5.3 h
Mercer, NJ 3.6 h
Lehigh 3.0 h
Philadelphia 1.8 h

Across Pennsylvania

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Pennsylvania counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 250,540 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →