McCurtain County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

McCurtain County, Oklahoma had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.32 times the US outage time per person and 0.93 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 21 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

89 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 18, 2023, reached 7,396 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 51.2 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	6,762	14	0
2016	26,626	13	1
2017	12,356	14	0
2018	34,389	36	0
2019	104,269	73	4
2020	18,284	23	0
2021	100,968	41	5
2022	301,990	72	6
2023	291,682	79	6

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	51.2	7,396	168,947
Nov 5, 2022	88.8	3,235	152,875
Oct 21, 2019	18.2	2,946	33,260
Mar 3, 2023	18.5	4,808	30,678
Dec 24, 2022	29.5	1,493	22,443

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.