Hendricks County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.28 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 73 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

110 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 21, 2021, reached 4,264 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 110.2 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	94,175	36	0
2016	27,456	31	0
2017	18,513	18	0
2018	151,146	32	4
2019	48,016	33	0
2020	164,366	58	3
2021	453,072	60	1
2022	65,255	58	0
2023	137,319	84	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
Apr 21, 2021	110.2	4,264	365,286
Oct 30, 2018	17.8	2,736	36,244
Dec 16, 2018	10.5	3,778	33,415
Jun 29, 2023	13.8	8,302	31,378
Aug 10, 2020	27.5	2,847	26,688

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.