Same here (Western Europe). I can't recall the last time we had a power outage that was not caused inside the house. All power cables except for long-distance

Same here (Western Europe). I can't recall the last time we had a power outage that was not caused inside the house. All power cables except for long-distance transport are underground though, which probably helps a lot and might account for the difference to a large extend. (Our microwave oven did trip our residual-current circuit breaker a few weeks ago, never encountered that before, only 'fuse switch'-flips. Sadly that was the end of the device after 16 years.)