Glenn County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Glenn County, California had 28 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.20 times the US outage time per person and 1.34 times the California rate. It ranks 25 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

4.7major outages per year

6 of 6years with a major outage

28 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 27, 2021, reached 3,279 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 20.5 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	43,826	19	4
2019	77,692	62	3
2020	45,654	32	2
2021	156,266	32	10
2022	95,423	38	3
2023	78,676	33	6

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
Jan 27, 2021	20.5	3,279	36,384
Sep 18, 2022	10.0	4,110	20,965
Aug 17, 2021	28.0	1,717	17,494
Oct 11, 2021	24.8	539	12,976
Oct 20, 2021	17.0	1,131	12,906

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.