2022 Dec winter event power outage summary:

Max customers out at one time:

1.6 Million

Estimated total customers affected:

USA: 6.35 Million

NC: 940k - 17.9%

TN: 710k - 23.5%

ME: 380k - 43.8%

PA: 360k - 5.7%

GA, VA, TX, NY, OH, NH, SC: 200k-300k

AL, KY, CT, MD, MA, VT, WA, NJ: 100k-200k

Data Source:

https://poweroutage.us/

Tool:

Custom Mapbox map webpage

If you have any questions on the data or the website let me know!

I see it focused mainly on the tip.

Great visualization! Thanks. Now you understand why we moved to Georgia. 😁

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Are we missing data for a few counties?

Pendleton county in West Virginia must suuuuuck. It’s like a glitchy neon sign during the whole animation.

Maine, you wanna update your grid?

What do the green shades represent? It would be nice to have that in the annotations.

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Maine runs on fire wood and whale oil lanterns.

Green a mix of blue and yellow, between 0 and 10%

yeah, PowerOutage.us tracks about 93% of all electric customers in the USA. The gray counties are places where we don't track any electric provider that serves that area.

Good job. I thought about doing a similar map animation based on that website but it appeared I would have to pay to download the data. I don't see a "custom mapbox" anywhere on the site.

I remember when winter was more than one big storm

That's what she said

Got it.

Its nothing that Maine did wrong, they just received the highest winds. The big "oopsie" is actually that quick second surge in Tennessee and North Carolina which was load shedding due to not having enough generation, not storm damage.

Power companies in Maine are pretty terrible. There might be some engineering challenges but nothing that should cause this many more outages.

Never seen whale oil in Maine.

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