Fayette County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fayette County, Indiana had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 54 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

26 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aprhardest months

July and April made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 11, 2020, reached 2,108 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 26.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	7,595	6	0
2016	28,117	10	1
2017	38,928	12	2
2018	20,698	8	1
2019	8,279	5	0
2020	54,272	14	2
2021	8,514	9	0
2022	26,570	15	1
2023	17,560	11	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 11, 2020	26.2	2,108	30,258
Jul 7, 2017	26.2	2,273	17,334
Nov 15, 2018	13.5	2,421	12,250
Apr 3, 2016	11.8	1,984	12,170
Apr 29, 2017	14.5	2,989	10,528

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.