Pend Oreille County, Washington Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Pend Oreille County, Washington had 8 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.16 times the US outage time per person and 1.44 times the Washington rate. It ranks 13 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

2 of 5years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Janhardest months

September and January made up 69% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 7, 2020, reached 2,932 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 56.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	39,858	30	3
2020	160,654	45	5
2021	317	1	0
2022	829	3	0
2023	1,442	2	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 7, 2020	56.5	2,932	71,136
Jan 12, 2020	37.2	1,977	39,276
Sep 20, 2020	12.0	1,101	7,608
Jun 9, 2019	2.2	3,465	6,032
Sep 29, 2019	23.5	331	5,443

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.