Garfield County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.90 times the US outage time per person and 0.63 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 39 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

117 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Mayhardest months

October and May made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 28, 2020, reached 8,760 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 117.2 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	123,689	20	1
2016	47,794	36	2
2017	71,878	37	3
2018	43,819	28	1
2019	76,482	46	1
2020	705,004	37	3
2021	33,032	23	0
2022	44,841	27	0
2023	76,200	46	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
Oct 28, 2020	117.2	8,760	483,443
Dec 29, 2015	25.8	3,926	93,388
May 22, 2020	34.0	5,747	91,042
Oct 27, 2020	16.2	7,205	90,099
Jun 21, 2019	2.5	9,410	22,216

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.