Butte County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Butte County, California had 63 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 7.86 times the US outage time per person and 8.76 times the California rate. It ranks 8 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

10.5major outages per year

6 of 6years with a major outage

210 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Octhardest months

November and October made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 10, 2018, reached 25,304 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 131.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2018	13,891,985	78	13
2019	4,087,307	193	11
2020	3,398,569	180	14
2021	1,292,252	170	14
2022	397,569	175	4
2023	947,268	165	7

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
Nov 10, 2018	131.0	25,304	3,121,750
Nov 20, 2018	209.8	17,515	2,851,016
Nov 17, 2018	75.8	19,753	1,426,529
Nov 30, 2018	109.5	13,460	1,266,429
Dec 11, 2018	171.5	10,103	1,233,012

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.