Pontotoc County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.09 times the US outage time per person and 0.76 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 30 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

58 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 19, 2019, reached 11,796 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 58.2 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	32,757	25	0
2016	74,142	31	3
2017	148,536	49	3
2018	67,628	74	1
2019	248,406	54	2
2020	114,367	58	6
2021	62,902	65	1
2022	28,905	36	0
2023	139,666	55	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 19, 2019	58.2	11,796	201,188
Jul 2, 2017	22.0	13,577	70,622
Feb 15, 2023	7.8	6,711	48,700
May 19, 2017	29.8	5,758	32,270
Oct 27, 2020	19.0	4,365	25,063

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.