Huntington County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Huntington County, Indiana had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.15 times the US outage time per person and 0.24 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 84 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

16 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 27, 2017, reached 2,791 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 4.0 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	16,204	13	0
2016	21,172	13	1
2017	15,074	11	0
2018	6,708	8	0
2019	6,451	9	0
2020	10,508	7	0
2021	20,311	15	0
2022	14,922	11	1
2023	7,611	6	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
May 27, 2017	4.0	2,791	11,042
Apr 3, 2021	4.0	2,172	8,614
Sep 4, 2015	7.8	1,256	6,954
Jun 23, 2016	13.8	754	4,920
Aug 11, 2020	19.2	364	4,815

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.