Starke County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Starke County, Indiana had 9 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 0.95 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.

1.0major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

23 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2022, reached 5,289 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 23.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	17,271	12	0
2016	10,395	10	0
2017	13,558	10	0
2018	1,512	5	0
2019	9,927	7	0
2020	31,206	22	2
2021	106,828	31	4
2022	64,693	19	2
2023	41,148	24	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
Aug 29, 2022	23.2	5,289	45,437
Jun 26, 2021	15.0	3,415	32,327
Jan 1, 2021	14.2	1,318	15,989
Jul 29, 2023	9.8	1,697	12,124
Jun 21, 2021	10.0	1,765	12,081

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.