Washoe County, Nevada Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washoe County, Nevada had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.49 times the US outage time per person and 2.06 times the Nevada rate. It ranks 6 of 11 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

125 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Novhardest months

January and November made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 1, 2023, reached 49,287 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 124.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	570,708	103	3
2016	390,212	180	2
2017	699,724	183	6
2018	370,554	189	1
2019	585,593	145	5
2020	385,279	169	3
2021	331,862	160	1
2022	614,475	179	4
2023	1,506,490	173	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	124.8	49,287	1,117,367
Nov 10, 2015	53.0	35,926	404,134
Jan 11, 2017	29.2	12,038	133,942
Jan 7, 2019	29.8	7,058	75,110
Jan 4, 2022	20.8	12,660	73,890

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.