Lawrence County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lawrence County, Indiana had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.73 times the US outage time per person and 1.21 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 25 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

40 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 19, 2021, reached 6,213 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.5 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	40,592	25	0
2016	76,000	26	3
2017	33,835	24	0
2018	136,264	30	3
2019	58,168	33	1
2020	75,693	37	1
2021	143,550	53	3
2022	98,454	38	2
2023	61,620	34	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
Jun 19, 2021	40.5	6,213	71,337
May 31, 2018	32.0	7,003	66,835
Apr 9, 2020	23.2	3,141	33,702
Dec 11, 2021	36.0	2,235	33,574
May 21, 2022	19.8	3,266	31,310

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.