Chelan County, Washington Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Chelan County, Washington had 1 major outage from 2019 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.07 times the US outage time per person and 0.09 times the Washington rate. It ranks 29 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 5years with a major outage

22 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Sephardest months

November and September made up 88% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 28, 2023, reached 1,829 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 22.2 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	Major outages
2019	9,647	3	0
2020	6,373	6	0
2021	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0
2023	52,105	5	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
Nov 28, 2023	22.2	1,829	40,679
Sep 10, 2019	7.2	1,200	8,700
Nov 7, 2023	9.0	640	5,314
Nov 14, 2023	4.5	1,458	4,242
Jan 15, 2020	6.2	542	3,388

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.