Mendocino County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Mendocino County, California had 37 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.70 times the US outage time per person and 6.36 times the California rate. It ranks 11 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

6.2major outages per year

6 of 6years with a major outage

196 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 24, 2023, reached 14,999 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 196.0 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
2018	379,966	51	1
2019	3,479,355	169	7
2020	230,834	105	3
2021	1,253,369	112	12
2022	369,954	130	4
2023	1,746,276	117	10

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
Feb 24, 2023	196.0	14,999	484,427
Jan 4, 2023	54.0	10,376	409,953
Jan 29, 2021	131.8	7,210	377,712
Oct 29, 2019	8.0	41,123	322,845
Jan 27, 2021	34.5	10,320	306,967

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.