Jennings County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jennings County, Indiana had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.57 times the US outage time per person and 0.94 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 37 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

47 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Mayhardest months

November and May made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 3,027 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 43.5 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	25,917	17	1
2016	4,180	4	0
2017	27,818	13	2
2018	139,720	30	3
2019	20,159	10	0
2020	42,175	19	3
2021	23,074	18	1
2022	21,312	20	1
2023	40,316	16	1

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	43.5	3,027	47,820
May 31, 2018	46.8	2,870	46,155
Jun 29, 2023	25.5	2,290	18,436
Nov 27, 2019	4.5	3,910	13,830
Mar 1, 2017	8.8	5,162	13,737

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.