– 0 customers out in the US

March 2023 · 13th largest of 72

Windstorm

Mar 3, 2023. At the peak, 1,552,749 customers were without power, most of them in Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan.

Windstorm
Customers out at the peak 1,552,749 Mar 3, 2023, 9:00 PM
Customer-hours lost 50M Every customer out, times every hour out
Counties with 10%+ out 330 of 616 counties affected
Above 600,000 out nationally 32 hours Mar 3, 2023, 2:00 PM onward
States affected 31 KY · TN · MI · AL · OH
Hardest-hit county 100%out Piatt, IL · 6,148 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 2.0M Mar 1Mar 2Mar 3Mar 4Mar 5Mar 6Mar 7Mar 8 Peak 1.6M

By state

Where it hit

StatePeak outShareCounties 10%+
Kentucky 654,422 28% 108
Tennessee 452,169 15% 40
Michigan 387,286 15% 11
Alabama 172,800 12% 16
Ohio 154,142 5% 12
Georgia 108,914 4% 15
Pennsylvania 99,091 6% 6
Indiana 97,341 6% 13
West Virginia 92,955 13% 24
New York 76,316 6% 3
North Carolina 65,143 4% 7
Mississippi 61,476 9% 18
Texas 61,451 5% 13
Illinois 49,161 7% 14
Virginia 33,215 7% 11
Maine 20,347 5% 1
Florida 18,232 2% 0
Missouri 17,212 4% 4
Louisiana 16,781 3% 5
South Carolina 13,181 3% 1

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