Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.75 times the US outage time per person and 1.23 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 14 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

171 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aprhardest months

October and April made up 72% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 26, 2020, reached 15,242 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 171.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	27,404	26	1
2016	43,641	27	2
2017	61,377	29	1
2018	68,113	50	0
2019	102,650	50	1
2020	1,104,866	37	3
2021	81,514	48	2
2022	124,964	48	2
2023	1,256,332	56	8

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
Oct 26, 2020	171.0	15,242	1,021,894
Apr 20, 2023	120.2	18,571	959,706
Feb 27, 2023	26.5	9,831	91,458
Jun 18, 2023	45.5	6,059	44,248
May 5, 2022	45.0	1,544	33,066

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.