Largest blackout ever?

Yeah, I know I’m a week late on this, but I’ve been doing other stuff. Sorry.

Anyway, many news reports claimed that last week’s power blackout was the largest in history. But I have not found any figures to back up that claim.

On all the maps I’ve seen, it looks pretty similar to how I remember the 1965 blackout. Maybe they’re going by number of people affected, but that would beat out '65 pretty easily even with a smaller area because we have so many more people now.

So, does anyone know where I can find some comparative statistics?

It is based on # of people affected as every article I’ve seen opens up with “xxx millions of people without power”

Sure, but does the second sentence say “… while in 1965 only zzz millions were affected”? No…