Lyon County, Nevada Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lyon County, Nevada had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.55 times the US outage time per person and 2.33 times the Nevada rate. It ranks 4 of 11 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

82 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Julhardest months

January and July made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 1, 2023, reached 11,835 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 82.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	51,112	34	1
2016	81,822	42	1
2017	109,374	54	1
2018	85,376	45	1
2019	56,941	40	0
2020	26,546	32	0
2021	43,204	28	0
2022	30,114	27	0
2023	290,136	26	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	82.0	11,835	234,730
Mar 22, 2017	11.2	2,666	29,528
Jul 29, 2016	5.8	4,351	17,595
Dec 6, 2023	7.8	2,420	11,868
Oct 14, 2016	4.5	3,437	10,710

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.