Imperial County, California Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Imperial County, California had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.32 times the US outage time per person and 0.36 times the California rate. It ranks 50 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

246 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 16, 2020, reached 2,513 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 246.5 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
2015	2,099	2	0
2016	5,424	2	0
2017	77	1	0
2018	1,492	2	0
2019	136,485	7	0
2020	754,261	19	2
2021	201,720	11	0
2022	139,010	19	3
2023	32,893	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 16, 2020	246.5	2,513	469,488
May 12, 2020	115.0	2,052	225,131
Dec 13, 2019	164.2	986	131,588
Jul 16, 2021	139.5	742	99,973
Apr 1, 2021	147.0	764	89,493

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.