Blackford County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Blackford County, Indiana had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.86 times the US outage time per person and 1.43 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 17 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Julhardest months

November and July made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 23, 2022, reached 2,313 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 29.0 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.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	3,350	7	0
2016	17,166	7	1
2017	69,585	62	0
2018	15,516	11	0
2019	41,963	12	2
2020	9,296	7	0
2021	4,868	3	0
2022	46,262	7	1
2023	15,094	5	1

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
Jul 23, 2022	29.0	2,313	29,709
Jan 1, 2019	8.8	1,533	12,847
Nov 5, 2022	5.5	2,125	11,493
Jun 29, 2017	6.0	1,995	10,113
May 28, 2019	15.5	750	9,124

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.