Cotton County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Cotton County, Oklahoma had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

51 hrslongest major outage

May, Dechardest months

May and December made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 23, 2016, reached 3,389 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 18.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	77,544	13	3
2016	60,711	30	1
2017	58,608	31	2
2018	4,235	9	0
2019	5,659	9	0
2020	5,398	8	0
2021	3,780	5	0
2022	5,880	6	0
2023	37,521	18	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
May 23, 2016	18.2	3,389	40,511
Dec 28, 2015	51.2	2,733	38,168
Dec 27, 2015	14.8	1,608	23,628
Jul 1, 2017	14.2	2,708	23,312
May 18, 2017	9.2	4,688	16,181

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.
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