Major events 1–11.

<p>Validation of PowerOutage.US data with the Department of Energy (DOE)-417, “Electric Emergency Incident and Disturbance Report.” Outage events with dashed lines representing major events in the on the DOE-417, “Electric Emergency Incident and Disturbance Report.” [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0307742#pone.0307742.ref001" target="_blank">1</a>] Data representing the start and end date and time for the event according to the DOE files is demarcated with a blue dashed line. Areas with a blank x-axis indicate missing PowerOutage.US data. When impacted counties are missing from the DOE data, we assumed all counties in the utility service territory were affected.</p> <p>(PDF)</p>