Utah County, Utah Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Utah County, Utah had no major outages from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.18 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Utah rate. It ranks 18 of 25 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

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Nonelongest major outage

Mar, Aprhardest months

March and April made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 24, 2022, reached 119,719 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 4.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages
2017	147,288	55
2018	132,559	95
2019	177,130	111
2020	199,321	117
2021	483,514	106
2022	771,970	108
2023	327,464	140

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
Mar 24, 2022	4.2	119,719	359,593
Apr 8, 2021	95.2	3,063	286,160
Mar 16, 2022	5.5	26,212	144,158
Sep 5, 2017	5.2	17,945	58,708
Aug 3, 2022	47.2	771	30,444

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.