Bartholomew County, Indiana Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Bartholomew County, Indiana had 14 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.69 times the US outage time per person and 1.14 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 26 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

6 of 8years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

May, Junhardest months

May and June made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 21, 2022, reached 19,615 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	759	2	0
2017	1,866	3	0
2018	257,932	51	4
2019	85,239	38	2
2020	134,539	51	2
2021	119,785	57	1
2022	322,468	50	2
2023	219,757	59	3

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
May 21, 2022	47.0	19,615	249,066
Nov 15, 2018	40.5	9,306	108,578
Jun 30, 2023	51.5	5,362	108,466
May 31, 2018	33.8	6,945	73,200
Apr 9, 2020	14.5	7,412	56,786

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.