Lake County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lake County, Indiana had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.55 times the US outage time per person and 0.92 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 39 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

86 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 11, 2020, reached 22,877 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 85.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Indiana counties

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	276,430	124	2
2016	651,198	150	4
2017	390,463	155	3
2018	541,335	167	3
2019	296,191	75	1
2020	1,575,310	175	3
2021	735,291	206	3
2022	634,514	182	5
2023	1,004,082	149	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
Aug 11, 2020	85.8	22,877	614,532
Jul 29, 2023	58.2	24,612	309,735
Aug 11, 2020	6.2	35,616	202,481
Feb 24, 2016	51.0	17,188	198,780
Jun 21, 2021	38.2	14,306	156,896

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.