Fig. 4: Observed and predicted outage duration by overall social vulnerability index (SVI) and SVI Theme 3 Racial and Ethnic Minority Status.

The colored matrix provides a key for interpreting where a county falls on vulnerability and outage duration. Observed outage duration refers to the measured duration found in our dataset. The predicted average duration is the value predicted without a multilevel model after partial pooling of measures across counties, hazards, and years. Counties in white are those where no data was available for either hazard events or outages.