Kent County, Delaware Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kent County, Delaware had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.19 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Delaware rate. It ranks 3 of 3 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

31 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 6,646 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 31.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Delaware 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	98,561	54	0
2016	152,357	75	0
2017	97,161	74	0
2018	96,304	37	1
2019	118,433	64	1
2020	113,700	53	1
2021	27,559	40	0
2022	55,673	59	0
2023	52,364	68	0

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 4, 2020	31.2	6,646	61,354
Mar 2, 2018	18.5	7,777	49,388
Apr 15, 2019	6.2	9,117	41,268
Sep 29, 2016	7.2	4,905	17,662
Jul 28, 2016	5.5	8,182	14,464

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.