Hughes County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hughes County, Oklahoma had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.22 times the US outage time per person and 0.85 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 23 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

38 hrslongest major outage

May, Sephardest months

May and September made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 24, 2023, reached 2,966 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.5 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	19,727	14	1
2016	65,860	26	2
2017	49,003	24	1
2018	24,824	18	0
2019	13,556	22	0
2020	28,148	20	0
2021	22,378	18	0
2022	41,446	30	1
2023	92,920	39	2

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
Sep 24, 2023	37.5	2,966	48,553
May 20, 2017	12.5	4,412	28,729
May 15, 2022	9.2	2,435	14,802
Apr 27, 2016	11.5	1,610	13,721
Jun 2, 2016	7.8	2,466	12,972

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.