Johnston County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Johnston County, Oklahoma had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.62 times the US outage time per person and 1.14 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 15 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

60 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 4,231 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 59.5 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	20,698	11	1
2016	46,758	20	2
2017	35,586	19	1
2018	31,631	26	1
2019	21,770	18	0
2020	20,420	15	1
2021	23,282	19	1
2022	36,662	14	2
2023	130,391	16	1

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	59.5	4,231	109,722
Feb 21, 2018	17.0	1,028	15,350
May 9, 2016	25.5	1,110	12,084
May 16, 2022	13.2	1,369	11,791
Mar 23, 2016	18.0	1,613	11,370

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.