2015 US Power Outage Report

In 2015, the average US customer tracked by EAGLE-I went without power for about 2.8 hours, the 11th worst of the 11 loaded years (2015–2025). Figures include major storm days.

Avg hrs / customer

2.8

Customer-hours out

389.8M

EAGLE-I coverage

n/a

of US customers

Largest county peak

217,351

customers out at once

Outage events

826,844

Counties reporting

2,498

2015 in context

Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Month by month, 2015

Customer-hours without power each month; June was the worst.

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Hardest-hit counties in 2015

Top 25 two ways: per customer (counties tracking at least 1,000 customers, so tiny counties don't swing the list) and total customer-hours (where the most people were affected).

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#	County	Hrs / customer	Customer-hours	Customers	Peak out	Events
1	Caddo County, OK	122.7	1.7M	13,540	13,540	841
2	Clay County, WV	113.8	280K	2,463	2,463	237
3	Wirt County, WV	101.2	285K	2,813	2,813	278
4	Alcona County, MI	98.3	595K	6,050	5,149	296
5	Calhoun County, WV	94.7	331K	3,500	3,500	275
6	Ritchie County, WV	92.7	462K	4,984	4,984	318
7	Doddridge County, WV	81.5	317K	3,891	3,891	212
8	Ogemaw County, MI	80.7	942K	11,681	9,196	392
9	Tyler County, WV	79.5	381K	4,787	4,787	285
10	Gilmer County, WV	77.3	356K	4,601	4,601	248
11	Braxton County, WV	75.7	542K	7,157	6,148	382
12	Culberson County, TX	75.5	76K	1,000	1,000	30
13	Kiowa County, OK	72.7	304K	4,175	4,175	213
14	Durham County, NC	71.4	429K	6,008	6,008	823
15	Chatham County, NC	71.0	270K	3,797	3,797	686
16	Harmon County, OK	67.2	99K	1,471	1,218	45
17	Oscoda County, MI	67.1	339K	5,044	2,730	231
18	New Hanover County, NC	64.8	165K	2,544	2,544	939
19	Huron County, MI	64.1	676K	10,545	10,545	302
20	Collingsworth County, TX	60.1	75K	1,249	1,249	59
21	Berrien County, MI	59.3	760K	12,805	12,148	681
22	Pocahontas County, WV	59.0	271K	4,599	4,599	301
23	Wheeler County, TX	57.3	133K	2,320	2,320	161
24	Crawford County, MI	57.0	469K	8,218	5,683	318
25	Roane County, WV	54.3	443K	8,158	6,137	361

#	County	Hrs / customer	Customer-hours	Customers	Peak out	Events
1	Los Angeles County, CA	5.4	20.4M	3,762,600	34,780	38
2	Spokane County, WA	51.3	11.1M	217,351	217,351	806
3	Wayne County, MI	14.0	6.2M	441,528	61,704	76
4	King County, WA	6.0	5.7M	963,744	117,262	455
5	Gloucester County, NJ	33.6	5.5M	162,737	81,657	782
6	Camden County, NJ	18.5	4.5M	243,254	93,824	893
7	Orange County, CA	3.5	4.5M	1,255,530	124,111	286
8	Delaware County, PA	13.4	3.7M	277,130	107,229	565
9	San Bernardino County, CA	4.2	3.5M	840,555	28,873	326
10	Cook County, IL	1.6	3.4M	2,162,007	144,538	139
11	Oakland County, MI	5.3	3.4M	646,293	30,350	184
12	Chester County, PA	10.6	2.8M	267,257	75,718	643
13	Riverside County, CA	3.2	2.8M	853,923	16,984	407
14	Miami-Dade County, FL	2.9	2.8M	951,391	33,640	25
15	Kitsap County, WA	21.5	2.7M	126,242	51,951	208
16	Shelby County, TN	6.3	2.7M	422,904	38,123	443
17	San Diego County, CA	1.8	2.5M	1,362,929	68,549	355
18	Tarrant County, TX	2.3	2.4M	1,040,761	67,373	108
19	East Baton Rouge Parish, LA	10.0	2.2M	214,590	37,904	784
20	Jackson County, MO	10.3	2.1M	202,364	73,066	425
21	Dallas County, TX	2.2	2.1M	948,355	23,536	47
22	Burlington County, NJ	9.9	2.1M	208,513	60,166	846
23	Whatcom County, WA	35.0	2.0M	56,747	54,372	256
24	Harris County, TX	1.1	2.0M	1,827,686	68,920	152
25	Marion County, IN	3.9	1.9M	493,304	40,322	929

States in 2015

Ranked by average hours without power per customer. Change compares with the closest earlier loaded year; coverage is EAGLE-I's share of the state's customers.

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#	State	Hrs / customer	vs prior yr	Customer-hours	Peak out	Coverage
1	West Virginia	17.3	-	17.5M	86,474	n/a
2	Washington	9.1	-	26.4M	374,211	n/a
3	Michigan	6.8	-	32.8M	178,422	n/a
4	North Carolina	6.5	-	12.7M	138,331	n/a
5	Rhode Island	5.9	-	3.0M	123,163	n/a
6	Louisiana	5.8	-	14.0M	192,123	n/a
7	Oklahoma	5.1	-	10.4M	111,121	n/a
8	New Jersey	4.5	-	18.6M	320,340	n/a
9	Arkansas	3.7	-	6.1M	38,921	n/a
10	Pennsylvania	3.2	-	19.7M	240,995	n/a
11	Oregon	3.2	-	3.3M	70,452	n/a
12	California	3.1	-	37.6M	131,005	n/a
13	Delaware	3.1	-	1.6M	45,915	n/a
14	Indiana	2.9	-	9.0M	49,441	n/a
15	Maine	2.8	-	2.2M	24,450	n/a
16	Alaska	2.8	-	119K	11,508	n/a
17	Virginia	2.6	-	10.5M	106,413	n/a
18	Vermont	2.6	-	1.0M	7,773	n/a
19	Mississippi	2.6	-	3.6M	28,025	n/a
20	Idaho	2.6	-	2.1M	53,595	n/a
21	District of Columbia	2.5	-	829K	6,662	n/a
22	South Carolina	2.5	-	7.1M	82,760	n/a
23	Ohio	2.5	-	14.1M	74,245	n/a
24	Tennessee	2.4	-	6.2M	45,013	n/a
25	Kentucky	2.3	-	5.2M	40,123	n/a
26	New Hampshire	2.3	-	1.7M	30,946	n/a
27	Montana	2.3	-	271K	7,295	n/a
28	Illinois	2.3	-	13.5M	207,255	n/a
29	Kansas	2.2	-	3.1M	29,329	n/a
30	Missouri	2.2	-	5.9M	105,852	n/a
31	Maryland	2.0	-	5.4M	95,215	n/a
32	Texas	1.9	-	26.0M	103,744	n/a
33	Georgia	1.8	-	9.3M	122,761	n/a
34	Minnesota	1.7	-	4.5M	58,414	n/a
35	New York	1.6	-	13.6M	53,637	n/a
36	Florida	1.6	-	18.0M	50,884	n/a
37	New Mexico	1.6	-	1.4M	16,512	n/a
38	Wisconsin	1.5	-	4.5M	54,298	n/a
39	Massachusetts	1.5	-	4.8M	50,678	n/a
40	Colorado	1.2	-	3.2M	21,215	n/a
41	Iowa	1.1	-	1.7M	14,801	n/a
42	Nevada	1.0	-	1.4M	37,008	n/a
43	Nebraska	0.8	-	537K	12,030	n/a
44	South Dakota	0.7	-	147K	6,882	n/a
45	North Dakota	0.6	-	137K	15,146	n/a
46	Alabama	0.5	-	530K	48,366	n/a
47	Arizona	0.4	-	1.1M	23,163	n/a
48	Wyoming	0.4	-	5,287	327	n/a
49	Connecticut	-	-	3.5M	107,973	n/a

Biggest single outages of 2015

The 25 county outage episodes with the most customers out at once.

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#	County	Started (UTC)	Ended (UTC)	Duration	Peak out	Customer-hours
1	Spokane County, WA	November 18, 2015 15:45	December 1, 2015 09:45	12d 18h	217,351	9.1M
2	Spokane County, WA	November 17, 2015 17:45	November 18, 2015 15:00	21h 15m	217,351	1.7M
3	Cook County, IL	March 11, 2015 10:00	March 13, 2015 10:30	2d	144,538	46K
4	Orange County, CA	June 8, 2015 04:00	June 11, 2015 14:30	3d 10h	124,111	256K
5	King County, WA	August 25, 2015 13:45	September 8, 2015 00:30	13d 10h	117,262	1.9M
6	King County, WA	November 12, 2015 08:45	November 18, 2015 15:00	6d 6h	114,507	1.5M
7	Delaware County, PA	June 23, 2015 09:30	June 29, 2015 09:00	5d 23h	107,229	3.1M
8	Camden County, NJ	June 23, 2015 09:30	June 29, 2015 09:15	5d 23h	93,824	4.2M
9	Bergen County, NJ	August 20, 2015 11:30	August 22, 2015 02:30	1d 15h	93,114	34K
10	Gloucester County, NJ	June 23, 2015 13:00	June 29, 2015 09:15	5d 20h	81,657	5.2M
11	Chester County, PA	June 23, 2015 20:30	June 29, 2015 09:00	5d 12h	75,718	2.3M
12	Hudson County, NJ	August 20, 2015 18:00	August 21, 2015 02:15	8h 15m	73,096	24K
13	Jackson County, MO	June 22, 2015 03:00	June 29, 2015 09:00	7d 6h	73,066	1.6M
14	Harris County, TX	January 1, 2015 00:00	January 6, 2015 23:00	5d 23h	68,920	1.5M
15	San Diego County, CA	September 20, 2015 20:15	September 20, 2015 22:15	2h	68,549	96K
16	Tarrant County, TX	April 16, 2015 11:15	April 21, 2015 18:15	5d 7h	67,373	678K
17	King County, WA	October 12, 2015 13:45	November 1, 2015 04:00	19d 14h	64,221	291K
18	Wayne County, MI	June 7, 2015 02:15	June 29, 2015 09:00	22d 6h	61,704	1.8M
19	Burlington County, NJ	June 23, 2015 21:30	June 29, 2015 09:15	5d 11h	60,166	1.7M
20	Cape May County, NJ	June 23, 2015 22:15	June 26, 2015 17:45	2d 19h	56,097	121K
21	King County, WA	November 18, 2015 15:45	November 23, 2015 07:15	4d 15h	55,641	436K
22	Whatcom County, WA	August 26, 2015 14:30	September 5, 2015 09:15	9d 18h	54,372	1.7M
23	Kent County, RI	August 4, 2015 10:30	August 4, 2015 17:45	7h 15m	53,780	318K
24	Kent County, RI	August 4, 2015 18:30	August 5, 2015 03:15	8h 45m	53,428	406K
25	Harris County, TX	January 11, 2015 10:30	January 26, 2015 17:30	15d 7h	52,685	129K

EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of US electricity customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are missing from every figure here. “Hrs per customer” divides outage customer-minutes by modeled county customers (a SAIDI-like measure including major event days), so it is not the EIA-861 SAIDI utilities file.

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