Howard County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Howard County, Indiana had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.92 times the US outage time per person and 1.52 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 15 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

77 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 25, 2016, reached 12,600 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 77.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	81,334	39	0
2016	801,541	65	5
2017	93,752	50	3
2018	98,610	43	0
2019	113,725	46	3
2020	225,751	39	2
2021	83,260	38	2
2022	94,810	36	2
2023	104,153	34	2

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
Aug 25, 2016	77.0	12,600	301,542
Aug 24, 2016	11.2	26,416	250,342
Aug 10, 2020	32.2	8,622	132,452
Aug 25, 2016	5.5	23,026	112,270
Jul 29, 2023	25.8	2,564	33,726

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.