Cherokee County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cherokee County, Oklahoma had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.30 times the US outage time per person and 0.21 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 63 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

92 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Mayhardest months

December and May made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 1, 2018, reached 3,480 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 91.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Oklahoma 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	52,287	38	2
2016	2,308	6	0
2017	80	1	0
2018	112,247	24	2
2019	56,891	27	2
2020	29,740	14	3
2021	8,431	13	0
2022	23,204	23	0
2023	37,211	21	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
Dec 1, 2018	91.5	3,480	97,194
May 21, 2019	33.5	923	24,096
Jun 18, 2023	20.2	3,099	20,758
Dec 28, 2015	20.0	1,032	14,476
Aug 27, 2019	17.0	1,901	14,094

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.