Wabash County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wabash County, Indiana had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.44 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 74 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

21 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 10, 2020, reached 1,444 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 21.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Indiana counties

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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	27,428	20	1
2016	21,105	15	0
2017	11,793	13	0
2018	27,694	23	0
2019	22,227	18	0
2020	25,917	11	1
2021	9,367	12	0
2022	19,070	13	1
2023	15,442	11	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 10, 2020	21.0	1,444	15,078
Apr 1, 2023	10.0	2,077	9,616
Mar 6, 2022	20.5	1,073	8,666
Aug 2, 2016	2.8	4,379	7,680
Dec 28, 2015	19.8	975	7,629

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.