Beckham County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Beckham County, Oklahoma had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.87 times the US outage time per person and 0.61 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 41 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

27 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 28, 2020, reached 5,622 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.2 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	62,577	30	1
2016	22,410	30	0
2017	31,273	27	1
2018	68,629	26	2
2019	32,661	34	1
2020	60,714	25	1
2021	48,806	27	0
2022	21,304	29	0
2023	76,637	33	4

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
Oct 28, 2020	27.2	5,622	29,243
Jul 9, 2023	18.8	4,769	24,726
May 14, 2018	4.5	6,497	21,909
Mar 13, 2021	4.0	4,633	17,878
Aug 11, 2023	12.5	2,623	14,581

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.