Stevens County, Washington Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Stevens County, Washington had 50 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.14 times the US outage time per person and 2.67 times the Washington rate. It ranks 5 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

82 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Sephardest months

November and September made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 7, 2020, reached 6,478 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	412,477	104	9
2016	129,380	69	3
2017	210,746	76	5
2018	202,416	87	2
2019	142,347	78	4
2020	436,574	89	7
2021	345,731	81	10
2022	290,436	99	8
2023	140,248	71	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	6,478	191,600
Jan 13, 2021	52.8	5,777	87,069
Nov 19, 2015	69.2	4,900	76,240
Nov 13, 2020	31.5	4,123	57,817
Jun 9, 2023	36.8	4,733	56,087

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.