Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oklahoma County, Oklahoma had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.52 times the US outage time per person and 1.76 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 5 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

178 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Novhardest months

October and November made up 76% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 26, 2020, reached 193,316 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 177.5 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	271,097	137	0
2016	722,879	206	1
2017	1,383,117	201	3
2018	693,015	190	2
2019	3,132,795	221	2
2020	34,888,204	228	11
2021	1,532,920	252	4
2022	1,183,486	264	3
2023	1,400,658	209	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
Oct 26, 2020	177.5	193,316	23,641,836
Nov 2, 2020	78.2	105,530	6,822,653
Aug 27, 2019	99.0	80,563	2,400,912
Nov 7, 2020	93.0	41,030	1,478,561
Nov 6, 2020	25.5	63,883	1,292,144

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.