Nevada County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Nevada County, California had 65 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 10.47 times the US outage time per person and 11.67 times the California rate. It ranks 5 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

10.8major outages per year

6 of 6years with a major outage

137 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Dechardest months

October and December made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 27, 2021, reached 32,091 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	70,838	40	1
2019	5,406,222	147	16
2020	2,521,659	142	9
2021	2,787,171	116	14
2022	2,545,096	162	12
2023	2,368,925	179	13

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	32,091	2,022,768
Jan 1, 2022	137.2	15,855	1,659,746
Feb 27, 2023	108.5	17,272	1,155,065
Oct 27, 2020	24.8	31,004	661,776
Oct 10, 2019	11.8	44,115	434,147

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.