Douglas County, Nevada Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Douglas County, Nevada had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.15 times the US outage time per person and 4.84 times the Nevada rate. It ranks 2 of 11 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Dechardest months

January and December made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 1, 2023, reached 9,505 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.0 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	60,723	19	1
2016	60,549	34	2
2017	256,164	61	2
2018	24,531	26	0
2019	81,384	28	1
2020	39,143	30	0
2021	189,917	46	6
2022	177,108	30	1
2023	361,758	41	1

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, 2023	81.0	9,505	318,844
Feb 9, 2017	47.0	8,607	104,244
Dec 11, 2022	44.8	5,617	62,892
Nov 21, 2022	3.0	22,149	53,371
Jun 28, 2015	8.0	7,215	36,480

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.