Electric companies in Butler County, Pennsylvania

Butler County, PA on the map

Electric utilities in Butler County, PA

Plans from retail suppliers are not in public data, so no plan prices are shown. The listed utilities deliver the power, and which one serves your street depends on the address.

Housing and heating in Butler County, PA

Butler County, PA: 44,274 of 86,399 homes were built before 1980 and 20,533 in 2000 or later. Butler County, PA has 60,115 detached houses, 8,689 homes in 5+ unit buildings, 6,179 mobile homes, and 18,958 of 80,245 households rent.

ZIP codes in Butler County, PA

• 15086
• 16001
• 16002
• 16020
• 16022
• 16023
• 16024
• 16025
• 16027
• 16029
• 16030
• 16033
• 16034
• 16035
• 16037
• 16038
• 16040
• 16041
• 16045
• 16046
• 16048
• 16049
• 16050
• 16051
• 16052
• 16053
• 16055
• 16056
• 16057
• 16059
• 16061
• 16063
• 16066

Facts about Butler County, PA

Residents of Butler County, PA, ACS 2023

195,87019 of 67 Pennsylvania counties

Households in Butler County, PA

80,2452.44 people each

Owner-occupied homes in Butler County, PA

76.4%61,287 owner and 18,958 renter households

Median household income in Butler County, PA

$86,7755 of 67 Pennsylvania counties

Housing units in Butler County, PA

86,3996,154 vacant or seasonal, 7.1% of the units

Homes heated by electricity in Butler County, PA

19.1%15,358 homes, 41 of 67 Pennsylvania counties

Utilities listed for Butler County, PA

22 with a home price: FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co, Central Electric Coop, Inc

ZIP areas touching Butler County, PA

3315086 to 16066

Outage-linked storm events in Butler County, PA

262NWS storm events, 2015 to 2025

Homes built before 1980 in Butler County, PA

51.2%median year built 1979

Flood claims in Butler County, PA

203NFIP 2015 to 2025, $4.3M paid

Home energy burden in Butler County, PA

2.6%$1,456 a year on electricity (DOE LEAD)

Electricity price since 2015 in Butler County, PA

Butler County, PA has no price series of its own. Butler County, PA: the Pennsylvania average was 13.64 ¢/kWh in 2015. Butler County, PA: 17.77 ¢ in 2024, 30% up. Butler County, PA: against 30% up for the U.S. average.

Butler County, PA: a 817 kWh month at the Pennsylvania price. Butler County, PA: $111 in 2015, $145 in 2024. Butler County, PA: $1,743 a year, 2.0% of the $86,775 median income.

Cost of living with electricity in Butler County, PA

Butler County, PA: electricity $1,456 a year per home (DOE LEAD), all home energy $2,704, 2.6% of $104,310 income. 79,466 households in Butler County, PA spend about $115.7 million a year on electricity and $214.9 million on all home energy. Lower-income homes in Butler County, PA ($22,293 a year) spend 9.6% of income, 3.7 times the all-home figure.

Outage risk in Butler County, PA

Butler County, PA, NWS storm events 2015 to 2025: 262 in all, 133.8 per 100,000 residents of 195,870, rank 9 of 67 Pennsylvania counties. Property damage in Butler County, PA: $13.8M, with 2 direct injuries or deaths.

Flood claims and flood insurance in Butler County, PA

Butler County, PA: 203 NFIP flood claims in 2015 to 2025, $4.3M paid, median paid claim $11,210.

326 of 71,622 residential structures in Butler County, PA carry an NFIP contract. 395 NFIP policies of any type were in force in Butler County, PA on 8 Sep 2026. Butler County, PA lists 89 repetitive-loss properties, 22 of them severe repetitive loss.

Butler County, PA: claims history, not an outage count.

Butler County, PA: OpenFEMA NFIP, claims as of 8 Sep 2026, insured share as of 3 Aug 2026; counts under 5 are hidden.

Butler County, PA: flood claims by state, flood hub.

Climate and electric heating in Butler County, PA

Butler County, PA totals 6,009 heating degree days and 591 cooling degree days a year (1991-2020 normal).

For heating, Butler County, PA is the 37th coldest of 67 counties in Pennsylvania: 6,009 against a median of 6,046. For cooling, Butler County, PA is the 32nd hottest: 591 against a median of 571.

Butler County, PA is a cold-winter county, with 5,418 more heating than cooling degree days.

Butler County, PA: 5,822 heating degree days in 2016-2025, 6,009 on the normal, 3% under.

In Butler County, PA, a minority of homes heat with electricity: 19.1% of 80,245, in a 6,009 degree-day climate.

Butler County, PA: ACS B25040, 80,245 homes; NOAA nClimDiv, retrieved 7 Oct 2026.

Bill and heat pump calculator, Butler County, PA

Compare Butler County, PA with its neighbours

• Allegheny County sits 25 miles south of Butler County, PA, with 1,240,476 residents against 195,870 there, 685 storm events against 262, median home built 1957 against 1979, energy burden 2.5% against 2.6%, income $76,393 against $86,775.
• Beaver County sits 23 miles southwest of Butler County, PA, with 166,993 residents against 195,870 there, 230 storm events against 262, median home built 1958 against 1979, energy burden 3.8% against 2.6%, income $70,156 against $86,775.
• Armstrong County sits 22 miles east of Butler County, PA, with 65,069 residents against 195,870 there, 136 storm events against 262, median home built 1960 against 1979, energy burden 3.4% against 2.6%, income $64,295 against $86,775.
• Lawrence County sits 26 miles northwest of Butler County, PA, with 85,423 residents against 195,870 there, 178 storm events against 262, median home built 1957 against 1979, energy burden 4.3% against 2.6%, income $60,779 against $86,775.
• Clarion County sits 32 miles northeast of Butler County, PA, with 37,297 residents against 195,870 there, 164 storm events against 262, median home built 1966 against 1979, energy burden 3.2% against 2.6%, income $60,668 against $86,775.