Le Flore County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Le Flore County, Oklahoma had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.22 times the US outage time per person and 0.86 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 23 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Janhardest months

July and January made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 12, 2020, reached 9,363 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 66.5 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	47,287	14	1
2016	28,906	15	1
2017	24,361	21	0
2018	65,230	48	3
2019	118,374	71	2
2020	369,986	111	3
2021	137,205	94	3
2022	155,036	53	5
2023	394,341	71	11

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
Jul 12, 2020	66.5	9,363	265,898
Jan 24, 2023	25.2	6,947	107,607
Dec 11, 2021	62.0	5,406	61,232
Jan 25, 2023	29.2	4,231	55,455
Jun 18, 2023	34.5	5,619	38,471

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.