Placer County, California Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Placer County, California had 23 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.11 times the US outage time per person and 1.24 times the California rate. It ranks 27 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

5 of 8years with a major outage

108 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 27, 2021, reached 10,189 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 51.0 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.

2016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	115	1	0
2017	2,076	2	0
2018	175,680	61	0
2019	3,336,692	191	4
2020	1,284,716	184	4
2021	1,876,802	177	9
2022	1,617,763	218	3
2023	1,121,844	199	3

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	51.0	10,189	489,460
Jan 1, 2022	65.0	7,234	385,548
Feb 27, 2023	96.0	6,264	368,856
Dec 29, 2021	34.2	9,661	313,279
Jan 3, 2022	72.0	7,370	285,788

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.