Sequoyah County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sequoyah County, Oklahoma had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.66 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 49 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

86 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 12, 2020, reached 4,597 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 85.5 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	5,589	3	0
2016	75,585	12	1
2017	48,154	10	2
2018	33,507	14	1
2019	29,250	20	1
2020	254,746	20	1
2021	74,188	27	3
2022	35,730	15	2
2023	35,101	16	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
Jul 12, 2020	85.5	4,597	219,971
Jul 14, 2016	27.5	3,205	55,050
Jun 17, 2017	59.8	815	27,766
May 4, 2021	26.8	2,731	27,524
Jun 18, 2023	19.5	2,763	22,077

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.