Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.11 times the US outage time per person and 0.78 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 27 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

41 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Julhardest months

December and July made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 4, 2020, reached 4,708 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.5 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	23,041	19	0
2016	15,006	23	0
2017	49,682	28	1
2018	43,438	29	2
2019	115,501	57	4
2020	318,156	127	8
2021	136,269	137	2
2022	143,893	58	2
2023	215,169	59	3

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
Dec 4, 2020	28.5	4,708	119,171
Sep 24, 2023	30.5	8,325	77,311
Jul 9, 2022	41.2	2,781	75,049
Jun 18, 2023	23.8	4,648	67,998
Dec 5, 2020	29.8	4,214	46,398

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.