Comanche County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Comanche County, Oklahoma had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.14 times the US outage time per person and 0.80 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 25 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

103 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Sephardest months

December and September made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 27, 2015, reached 38,402 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 91.2 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	1,385,716	60	4
2016	199,636	99	4
2017	102,031	71	0
2018	125,835	73	1
2019	103,846	73	2
2020	264,764	65	3
2021	135,336	63	1
2022	80,874	71	0
2023	656,033	74	3

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
Dec 27, 2015	91.2	38,402	1,180,160
Sep 20, 2023	20.0	27,172	322,134
Oct 26, 2020	87.8	5,829	153,920
Jun 15, 2023	26.5	19,325	149,508
Nov 28, 2015	103.0	1,996	83,376

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.