Amador County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Amador County, California had 50 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 9.97 times the US outage time per person and 11.11 times the California rate. It ranks 6 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

8.3major outages per year

6 of 6years with a major outage

138 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 27, 2021, reached 10,852 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 85.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2018	348,826	13	1
2019	2,359,164	91	12
2020	876,035	65	6
2021	945,286	59	9
2022	814,670	57	12
2023	800,661	94	10

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Dec 27, 2021	85.5	10,852	529,988
Jul 5, 2022	48.5	13,563	448,988
Feb 28, 2023	137.8	13,776	366,248
Oct 15, 2018	45.8	13,107	329,313
Feb 5, 2019	47.0	11,738	228,748

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.