Muskogee County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Muskogee County, Oklahoma had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.96 times the US outage time per person and 0.67 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 36 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Mayhardest months

July and May made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 14, 2016, reached 13,092 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 29.5 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	37,960	27	0
2016	405,911	37	4
2017	168,783	35	5
2018	34,048	32	0
2019	211,274	45	3
2020	158,890	38	3
2021	71,058	36	1
2022	100,869	43	3
2023	219,266	31	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
Jul 14, 2016	29.5	13,092	202,475
Jun 18, 2023	70.8	9,235	162,777
May 23, 2019	83.5	3,389	138,802
Jul 16, 2016	31.5	4,217	103,167
May 19, 2017	39.8	6,014	93,582

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.