Delaware County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Delaware County, Oklahoma had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.86 times the US outage time per person and 1.30 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 11 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 18, 2023, reached 14,471 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Oklahoma 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	156,692	97	5
2016	186,215	137	5
2017	288,862	136	5
2018	99,604	91	1
2019	368,925	121	6
2020	70,018	77	0
2021	99,403	73	1
2022	66,347	54	1
2023	369,828	66	4

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	68.8	14,471	253,051
Aug 27, 2019	70.0	6,864	149,330
May 23, 2019	22.8	5,059	69,863
Sep 6, 2023	17.2	7,397	45,617
May 19, 2017	26.0	6,174	37,976

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.