Whitley County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Whitley County, Indiana had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.80 times the US outage time per person and 1.33 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 18 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

67 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 11,561 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 66.8 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	33,284	9	1
2016	4,893	2	0
2017	2,452	3	0
2018	928	2	0
2019	17,796	21	0
2020	90,434	36	2
2021	36,538	34	0
2022	410,054	30	2
2023	17,635	22	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
Jun 14, 2022	66.8	11,561	382,743
Jun 10, 2020	30.2	7,043	50,490
Aug 11, 2020	21.8	556	10,942
Dec 28, 2015	12.0	1,155	10,548
Feb 21, 2015	6.5	1,542	10,016

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.