Tulsa County, Oklahoma Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Tulsa County, Oklahoma had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.96 times the Oklahoma rate. It ranks 20 of 69 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

110 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 81% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 18, 2023, reached 171,636 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 110.2 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	826,017	215	3
2016	2,029,818	237	4
2017	632,234	196	2
2018	382,760	202	2
2019	567,271	225	3
2020	658,282	220	1
2021	541,371	247	2
2022	511,328	251	2
2023	14,647,590	245	6

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
Jun 18, 2023	110.2	171,636	12,518,756
Jun 22, 2023	99.8	56,350	1,550,568
Jul 14, 2016	45.0	74,402	1,303,079
Mar 25, 2015	44.5	33,854	407,224
Jul 12, 2020	39.8	34,075	331,325

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.