Converse County, Wyoming Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Converse County, Wyoming had 5 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.99 times the US outage time per person and 3.11 times the Wyoming rate. It ranks 2 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

20 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Mayhardest months

September and May made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 12, 2022, reached 5,684 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 7.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	11,613	4	1
2018	42,021	19	1
2019	25,200	28	0
2020	36,858	19	1
2021	27,534	21	2
2022	67,958	24	0
2023	21,847	16	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
May 12, 2022	7.5	5,684	42,628
Sep 8, 2020	20.0	2,959	23,368
Sep 30, 2018	4.5	4,333	19,495
Dec 22, 2017	11.2	2,246	11,188
Oct 20, 2021	13.8	1,295	9,956

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.