Jefferson County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jefferson County, Indiana had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.41 times the US outage time per person and 2.35 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 5 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

73 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Julhardest months

November and July made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 8,597 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 73.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	115,490	22	4
2016	28,868	19	0
2017	125,367	19	5
2018	410,902	44	5
2019	31,409	21	2
2020	45,832	38	2
2021	115,317	32	3
2022	66,181	38	1
2023	83,587	28	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
Nov 15, 2018	73.2	8,597	308,636
Jun 19, 2021	32.2	4,131	60,080
Mar 1, 2017	34.8	5,228	53,368
Jul 18, 2015	23.5	3,312	50,005
Jul 1, 2023	16.0	4,374	31,728

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.