Table 1.
Summary statistics of 8+ hour outages and 1+ hour outages among counties with 2+ years of reliable data
| Annual average 8+ hour outage | Annual average 1+ hour outage | |
|---|---|---|
| Counties included in analysis, N | 2038 | 2038 |
| Counties with 1 outage, N (%) | 1436 (70.5) | 1530 (75.1) |
| Total outage count | 17,484 | 231,174 |
| Median (IQR) county-level outage count | 2 (5) | 60 (97) |
| Min county-level outage count | 0 | 0 |
| Max county-level outage count | 35 | 414 |
Summary statistics refer to the average yearly totals per county, which is the total of outage types per county that are averaged across the study period (2018–2020). Power outage data was purchased from PowerOutage.us.