Klamath County, Oregon Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Klamath County, Oregon had 6 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.44 times the US outage time per person and 0.40 times the Oregon rate. It ranks 26 of 32 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

3 of 7years with a major outage

62 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Aughardest months

November and August made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 8, 2020, reached 762 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 61.5 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	30,708	14	0
2018	52,326	27	2
2019	50,701	43	0
2020	75,630	37	2
2021	88,359	40	0
2022	107,752	54	2
2023	129,608	72	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
Sep 8, 2020	61.5	762	28,231
Oct 30, 2023	3.0	21,109	25,830
Jun 6, 2022	1.0	31,042	24,025
Aug 24, 2021	6.2	6,784	18,609
Jan 6, 2021	6.5	2,838	17,627

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.