Washington County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Oklahoma had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.25 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 61 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

21 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 22, 2019, reached 8,253 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 21.0 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	33,135	27	1
2016	59,280	50	1
2017	33,173	23	0
2018	61,377	40	2
2019	104,086	47	1
2020	23,502	25	0
2021	40,180	34	0
2022	36,498	36	0
2023	34,167	31	0

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 22, 2019	21.0	8,253	48,121
Jun 12, 2018	12.2	3,082	18,403
Apr 27, 2016	11.0	2,724	15,326
Jul 30, 2018	9.0	3,212	13,810
May 3, 2017	3.0	2,414	7,233

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.