Pulaski County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pulaski County, Indiana had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 54 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

36 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 28, 2015, reached 1,323 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	39,917	9	1
2016	5,560	5	0
2017	9,549	11	0
2018	3,406	4	0
2019	3,855	5	0
2020	3,837	6	0
2021	14,726	11	1
2022	26,628	13	1
2023	4,282	4	0

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
Dec 28, 2015	35.5	1,323	30,896
Aug 29, 2022	17.0	1,237	12,851
Aug 12, 2021	12.5	1,159	11,427
Jul 5, 2022	5.5	645	3,415
Jul 24, 2017	5.0	1,020	2,932

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.