Stanislaus County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Stanislaus County, California had 1 major outage from 2018 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.05 times the US outage time per person and 0.05 times the California rate. It ranks 55 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 6years with a major outage

18 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Octhardest months

January and October made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 9, 2020, reached 5,539 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 7.8 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	27,109	19	0
2019	68,896	40	0
2020	77,010	41	0
2021	89,555	43	1
2022	41,394	42	0
2023	74,246	58	0

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 9, 2020	7.8	5,539	32,512
Jan 27, 2021	18.5	6,108	31,447
May 7, 2019	3.5	6,946	21,358
Oct 11, 2021	23.2	2,677	14,760
Oct 30, 2023	4.5	2,486	11,187

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.