Monroe County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monroe County, Indiana had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.89 times the US outage time per person and 1.48 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 16 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

108 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2023, reached 29,767 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 107.8 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	58,510	70	0
2016	189,037	84	2
2017	212,566	78	4
2018	227,940	67	6
2019	313,600	85	5
2020	358,232	81	3
2021	370,927	78	2
2022	234,249	101	3
2023	800,205	83	8

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 29, 2023	107.8	29,767	504,960
Jun 19, 2021	49.8	9,662	213,844
Apr 9, 2020	47.2	7,726	149,440
Apr 1, 2023	70.0	4,911	91,994
Jun 23, 2019	23.2	9,816	82,985

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.