Inyo County, California Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Inyo County, California had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.88 times the US outage time per person and 0.98 times the California rate. It ranks 32 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

64 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 25, 2023, reached 3,818 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 10.5 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
2015	19,193	17	1
2016	1,681	7	0
2017	43,044	19	0
2018	21,266	18	2
2019	51,724	40	5
2020	14,179	10	2
2021	30,803	18	0
2022	61,584	36	1
2023	113,842	35	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
Feb 25, 2023	10.5	3,818	24,849
Oct 17, 2017	4.5	4,385	18,766
Dec 24, 2023	63.8	304	18,123
Oct 10, 2017	3.8	4,415	16,490
Sep 3, 2022	12.8	2,234	12,646

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.