Fresno County, California Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fresno County, California had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.38 times the US outage time per person and 0.42 times the California rate. It ranks 46 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

44 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 31% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2020, reached 3,589 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 297.2 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	31,709	20	0
2016	36,838	19	0
2017	125,558	35	0
2018	373,289	249	0
2019	916,348	485	2
2020	2,629,458	388	0
2021	1,433,244	474	2
2022	1,253,947	543	2
2023	1,766,252	536	2

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
Sep 15, 2020	297.2	3,589	345,865
Sep 10, 2020	136.5	4,861	336,706
Feb 24, 2023	153.0	9,324	279,982
Sep 5, 2020	74.2	6,086	229,069
Oct 21, 2020	156.5	6,161	181,122

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.