Seminole County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Seminole County, Oklahoma had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.28 times the US outage time per person and 0.90 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 22 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

90 hrslongest major outage

May, Octhardest months

May and October made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 5, 2022, reached 8,843 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 90.2 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	20,172	34	0
2016	34,873	33	2
2017	41,418	30	1
2018	39,719	39	2
2019	49,615	38	3
2020	40,852	33	2
2021	53,233	36	2
2022	302,463	31	4
2023	73,819	37	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
May 5, 2022	90.2	8,843	242,623
Oct 21, 2019	17.8	2,476	16,194
Sep 24, 2023	16.8	3,443	15,522
Oct 28, 2021	22.0	2,498	12,710
Jun 10, 2022	16.5	3,480	11,979

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.