A dataset of recorded electricity outages by United States county 2014-2022

• Published in: Scientific data Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 271
• Main Authors: Brelsford, Christa, Tennille, Sarah, Myers, Aaron, Chinthavali, Supriya, Tansakul, Varisara, Denman, Matthew, Coletti, Mark, Grant, Joshua, Lee, Sangkeun, Allen, Karl, Johnson, Evelyn, Huihui, Jonathan, Hamaker, Alec, Newby, Scott, Medlen, Kyle, Maguire, Dakotah, Dunivan Stahl, Chelsey, Moehl, Jessica, Redmon, Daniel, Sanyal, Jibonananda, Bhaduri, Budhendra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Nature Publishing Group 05.03.2024; Nature Publishing Group UK; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: Blackouts; Customer services; Data collection; Data Descriptor; Electric utilities; Electricity; Electricity distribution; Emergency preparedness; Energy; energy access; energy security; Estimates; Geographic information systems; Laboratories; Macroeconomics; power distribution; POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; Visualization
• ISSN: 2052-4463; 2052-4463
• DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03095-5

In this Data Descriptor, we present county-level electricity outage estimates at 15-minute intervals from 2014 to 2022. By 2022 92% of customers in the 50 US States, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico are represented. These data have been produced by the Environment for Analysis of Geo-Located Energy Information (EAGLE-I ), a geographic information system and data visualization platform created at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to map the population experiencing electricity outages every 15 minutes at the county level. Although these data do not cover every US customer, they represent the most comprehensive outage information ever compiled for the United States. The rate of coverage increases through time between 2014 and 2022. We present a quantitative Data Quality Index for these data for the years 2018-2022 to demonstrate temporal changes in customer coverage rates by FEMA region and indicators of data collection gaps or other errors.