Hamilton County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hamilton County, Indiana had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.45 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 74 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Mayhardest months

April and May made up 31% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 9, 2020, reached 25,996 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Indiana 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	176,286	70	1
2016	265,688	89	0
2017	154,375	67	1
2018	152,902	79	1
2019	420,507	104	4
2020	416,662	83	1
2021	214,554	95	2
2022	279,471	111	1
2023	205,726	93	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
Apr 9, 2020	28.8	25,996	253,186
May 16, 2019	27.8	20,197	164,901
Jun 30, 2023	32.0	3,294	54,728
Oct 20, 2018	28.5	7,772	50,322
Apr 2, 2016	7.5	10,895	42,792

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.