Table 2 Summary of outages associated with hazard categories.

From: Power outages and social vulnerability in the U.S. Gulf Coast: multilevel Bayesian models of outage durations amid rising extreme weather

Hazard

Outages (N)

Minimum time (h)

25th Percentile

Median time (h)

75th Percentile

Maximum time (h)

Hurricane/tropical storm

2090

0.12

0.67

2.00

15.70

4512.91

Lightning

806

0.14

0.33

0.84

1.99

3535.87

Severe storm/thunderstorm

8839

0.11

0.31

0.65

1.85

1411.21

Wind

11,248

0.11

0.32

0.67

2.01

1411.21

Flooding

2344

0.12

0.33

0.97

2.68

709.18

Tornado

3201

0.11

0.32

0.71

2.50

623.23

Heat

43

0.16

0.59

2.10

3.84

294.54

Winter Weather

3473

0.12

0.34

0.99

3.17

239.38

Coastal hazards

171

0.14

0.49

1.00

2.01

165.17

Hail

745

0.14

0.35

1.16

3.00

144.85

Drought

192

0.14

0.49

1.01

1.99

18.50

Wildfire

21

0.16

0.50

0.67

2.49

16.89

Landslide

1

5.51

5.51

5.51

5.51

5.51

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