Pawnee County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pawnee County, Oklahoma had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.74 times the US outage time per person and 0.52 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 45 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 27, 2020, reached 2,362 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 63.8 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	29,908	27	3
2016	16,935	16	0
2017	758	2	0
2018	8,530	13	1
2019	9,886	10	0
2020	105,732	17	2
2021	2,277	6	0
2022	20,934	9	1
2023	68,442	17	2

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 27, 2020	63.8	2,362	82,706
Jun 18, 2023	68.0	1,316	52,244
Jul 14, 2016	7.8	1,841	9,552
Jan 19, 2020	5.0	1,870	8,929
Aug 26, 2022	12.8	626	7,915

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.