– 0 customers out in the US

October 2019 · 68th largest of 72

Tropical Storm Melissa

At the peak, 648,443 customers were without power, most of them in California, Connecticut, New York.

Tropical Storm Melissa
Customers out at the peak 648,443 Oct 9, 2019, 11:00 PM
Customer-hours lost 15M Every customer out, times every hour out
Counties with 10%+ out 47 of 101 counties affected
Above 600,000 out nationally 14 hours Oct 9, 2019, 11:00 PM onward
States affected 33 CA · CT · NY · HI · CO
Hardest-hit county 100%out Humboldt, CA · 59,962 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 200k 400k 600k 800k Oct 8Oct 9Oct 10Oct 11Oct 12Oct 13 Peak 648k

By state

Where it hit

StatePeak outShareCounties 10%+
California 702,727 14% 23
Connecticut 10,271 13% 1
New York 9,264 3% 1
Hawaii 8,488 3% 0
Colorado 8,425 2% 0
Oklahoma 8,410 8% 2
Florida 7,337 6% 0
Ohio 7,295 2% 0
Georgia 7,175 8% 1
Washington 6,507 7% 0
Texas 6,232 10% 3
New Jersey 5,597 1% 0
Tennessee 5,137 4% 0
Rhode Island 4,916 10% 1
Alaska 4,514 7% 1
Missouri 4,508 2% 1
Wisconsin 4,337 11% 1
New Mexico 3,451 10% 1
Kentucky 3,389 10% 2
Mississippi 2,909 2% 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