Ferry County, Washington Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ferry County, Washington had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.30 times the US outage time per person and 4.12 times the Washington rate. It ranks 3 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

82 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Novhardest months

September and November made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 7, 2020, reached 2,203 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 82.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Washington counties

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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
2015	18,672	15	2
2016	26,665	15	1
2017	52,246	22	2
2018	107,400	33	4
2019	15,520	20	1
2020	167,821	40	3
2021	61,546	19	4
2022	53,707	16	2
2023	44,800	16	2

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 7, 2020	82.0	2,203	107,887
Aug 12, 2018	54.5	1,411	49,515
Nov 13, 2020	31.5	2,608	33,764
Sep 26, 2017	10.5	1,979	20,780
Nov 7, 2022	40.2	1,164	19,136

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.