Dearborn County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dearborn County, Indiana had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.45 times the US outage time per person and 0.75 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 51 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

41 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 3,955 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.8 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	41,592	10	3
2016	29,672	16	0
2017	18,668	17	1
2018	81,377	17	1
2019	30,243	24	0
2020	125,623	41	4
2021	94,833	31	1
2022	43,826	35	1
2023	43,528	33	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
Nov 15, 2018	40.8	3,955	58,710
Jun 19, 2021	37.2	5,347	52,936
Nov 8, 2020	11.2	2,468	27,765
Jul 5, 2020	10.0	2,669	26,572
Jun 20, 2015	8.8	3,338	18,148

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.