Morgan County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Morgan County, Indiana had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.93 times the US outage time per person and 1.54 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 14 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

100 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 12,304 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.8 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	19,339	23	1
2016	82,062	50	1
2017	55,836	47	1
2018	70,196	64	1
2019	93,614	52	5
2020	227,483	61	4
2021	130,004	53	1
2022	151,552	67	5
2023	673,320	64	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
Apr 1, 2023	84.8	12,304	384,158
Jun 29, 2023	100.0	9,739	234,919
Apr 9, 2020	23.5	11,374	77,624
May 21, 2022	23.8	5,667	53,106
Aug 10, 2020	23.0	7,660	47,670

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.