Trinity County, California Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Trinity County, California had 30 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.98 times the US outage time per person and 3.33 times the California rate. It ranks 17 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

150 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Octhardest months

January and October made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 1, 2022, reached 949 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 137.2 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
2017	72	1	0
2018	5,017	3	1
2019	159,601	62	3
2020	208,968	51	10
2021	137,241	26	5
2022	232,351	27	6
2023	55,800	11	5

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 1, 2022	137.2	949	128,008
Dec 27, 2021	85.5	1,413	81,360
Oct 3, 2020	149.8	563	63,010
Jan 6, 2022	57.5	900	49,894
Oct 9, 2020	89.5	455	31,125

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.