– 0 customers out in the US

February 2023 · 24th largest of 72

Ice storm

Feb 22, 2023. At the peak, 1,081,991 customers were without power, most of them in Michigan, California, Illinois.

Ice storm
Customers out at the peak 1,081,991 Feb 23, 2023, 12:00 PM
Customer-hours lost 69M Every customer out, times every hour out
Counties with 10%+ out 91 of 299 counties affected
Above 600,000 out nationally 2.6 days Feb 22, 2023, 9:00 PM onward
States affected 44 MI · CA · IL · WI · NY
Hardest-hit county 100%out Lake, CA · 28,397 customers

Hour by hour

The country, in the dark

Customers without power across the US, two days either side. The shaded band is the time the national total stayed above 600,000.

0 500k 1.0M 1.5M Feb 21Feb 22Feb 23Feb 24Feb 25Feb 26Feb 27Feb 28 Peak 1.1M

By state

Where it hit

StatePeak outShareCounties 10%+
Michigan 888,504 29% 15
California 247,328 3% 12
Illinois 151,157 4% 10
Wisconsin 80,360 22% 5
New York 55,235 4% 1
Oregon 34,313 5% 2
Arizona 25,599 4% 1
Arkansas 25,530 6% 6
New Mexico 24,790 4% 2
Texas 24,293 3% 10
Indiana 23,863 10% 3
Florida 22,772 3% 0
Washington 21,402 6% 1
Louisiana 21,033 4% 2
Georgia 19,835 2% 1
New Jersey 17,868 4% 0
Ohio 14,556 3% 0
South Carolina 13,698 6% 0
Tennessee 13,376 5% 3
Pennsylvania 13,253 3% 0

State peaks add each county's own peak, which may fall at different hours, so they can exceed the true simultaneous total.

By county

The hardest hit