Carter County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Carter County, Oklahoma had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.36 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 55 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

65 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 18, 2023, reached 9,687 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 65.2 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	10,203	16	0
2016	32,932	26	0
2017	35,246	27	1
2018	34,426	32	0
2019	34,850	44	1
2020	56,458	36	3
2021	77,408	39	3
2022	48,586	33	1
2023	228,590	35	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 18, 2023	65.2	9,687	175,980
May 28, 2021	8.0	1,933	11,632
Jul 11, 2021	19.2	1,768	10,987
May 16, 2022	18.2	722	9,946
Apr 22, 2020	16.8	732	9,231

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.