Floyd County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Floyd County, Indiana had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 1.11 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 28 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

67 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Novhardest months

March and November made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 5,053 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 66.8 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	39,626	27	0
2016	59,185	27	2
2017	45,478	30	0
2018	282,613	27	3
2019	117,300	70	1
2020	101,376	33	2
2021	74,157	48	0
2022	148,750	51	3
2023	333,944	51	4

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
Nov 15, 2018	66.8	5,053	197,722
Mar 3, 2023	48.0	13,187	190,568
Mar 14, 2019	20.2	8,975	44,230
Aug 7, 2023	17.2	6,797	40,476
Aug 26, 2023	21.8	3,161	37,067

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.