Posey County, Indiana Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Posey County, Indiana had 5 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.86 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 44 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 8years with a major outage

21 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 2, 2022, reached 2,371 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 16.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	16,613	2	1
2017	13,175	13	0
2018	18,673	14	1
2019	42,531	37	0
2020	24,808	33	0
2021	19,166	24	0
2022	82,196	48	2
2023	37,249	39	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
Aug 2, 2022	16.0	2,371	24,804
Jun 17, 2022	19.2	2,451	14,272
Jul 3, 2016	21.2	1,221	10,833
Jul 1, 2019	4.0	3,317	7,969
Jul 30, 2023	6.5	1,457	6,284

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.