Putnam County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.77 times the US outage time per person and 1.27 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 22 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

102 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 69% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2023, reached 9,273 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 102.5 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	9,564	8	0
2016	21,311	19	1
2017	21,557	14	1
2018	13,469	8	2
2019	43,014	25	1
2020	56,642	28	3
2021	82,504	43	2
2022	43,806	36	1
2023	346,501	28	5

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	102.5	9,273	299,521
Jun 19, 2021	37.5	2,678	33,983
Apr 9, 2020	21.8	2,177	20,044
Dec 11, 2021	26.2	1,327	15,819
Apr 26, 2017	18.5	1,702	12,786

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.