Pike County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pike County, Indiana had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 1.25 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 23 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2023, reached 2,566 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 50.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	5,268	1	0
2016	24,690	7	1
2017	16,256	17	0
2018	18,729	19	1
2019	17,157	20	0
2020	13,124	10	1
2021	2,896	6	0
2022	61,080	15	3
2023	41,297	15	1

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	50.0	2,566	29,858
Jun 17, 2022	31.5	2,486	26,233
Jul 25, 2022	19.5	1,939	21,512
Jul 14, 2016	5.8	2,167	12,248
May 31, 2018	10.2	1,309	9,406

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.