Stephens County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Stephens County, Oklahoma had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.42 times the US outage time per person and 0.29 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 60 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

26 hrslongest major outage

May, Junhardest months

May and June made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 23, 2016, reached 10,986 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 15.2 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	20,317	18	0
2016	74,084	40	3
2017	69,051	49	2
2018	8,769	24	0
2019	37,216	29	1
2020	63,723	36	3
2021	18,666	25	0
2022	34,081	41	0
2023	79,074	40	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
May 23, 2016	15.2	10,986	31,444
Feb 27, 2023	8.8	5,189	25,539
Jun 19, 2019	12.8	6,038	23,404
Oct 27, 2020	26.0	1,401	19,765
Jul 1, 2017	7.8	4,400	17,416

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.