Ripley County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ripley County, Indiana had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.60 times the US outage time per person and 1.00 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 35 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 9, 2020, reached 4,279 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 41.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	45,221	10	1
2016	17,143	10	0
2017	9,868	9	0
2018	74,078	14	2
2019	22,342	16	0
2020	93,279	21	1
2021	57,673	31	2
2022	19,787	15	1
2023	48,834	23	2

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
Apr 9, 2020	41.8	4,279	73,709
Nov 15, 2018	43.2	2,987	49,942
Jul 17, 2015	14.0	3,635	35,641
Jun 19, 2021	45.5	1,562	35,254
Jul 1, 2023	8.8	2,142	13,625

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.