Bucks County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bucks County, Pennsylvania had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.12 times the US outage time per person and 1.52 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 21 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

115 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aughardest months

March and August made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 89,689 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	448,409	411	0
2016	833,103	405	6
2017	495,547	341	2
2018	5,147,140	346	3
2019	2,447,840	380	7
2020	4,487,438	345	9
2021	912,576	364	3
2022	609,028	354	2
2023	635,712	333	3

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 2, 2018	81.0	89,689	2,771,164
Aug 4, 2020	114.2	106,525	2,371,210
Mar 6, 2018	115.0	94,231	1,770,798
Jun 3, 2020	98.2	67,756	1,371,491
Nov 1, 2019	71.0	45,638	758,823

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.