Harrison County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Harrison County, Indiana had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.51 times the US outage time per person and 0.85 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 45 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

53 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aprhardest months

March and April made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 4,344 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	9,713	12	0
2016	5,852	4	1
2017	5,606	8	0
2018	25,308	12	2
2019	18,717	25	1
2020	49,861	30	2
2021	58,058	40	2
2022	61,852	40	0
2023	217,581	50	4

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
Mar 3, 2023	53.2	4,344	88,638
Apr 6, 2023	9.0	7,689	52,142
Mar 15, 2020	17.0	874	14,858
Nov 15, 2018	31.8	924	13,355
Jul 29, 2022	2.5	4,986	11,022

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.