Plumas County, California Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Plumas County, California had 76 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 16.30 times the US outage time per person and 18.17 times the California rate. It ranks 1 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

10.9major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

570 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Sephardest months

July and September made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 21, 2021, reached 8,302 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 570.5 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	316	1	0
2018	172,381	28	3
2019	410,745	106	12
2020	813,148	79	17
2021	3,490,535	65	29
2022	190,996	78	9
2023	176,532	62	6

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
Jul 21, 2021	570.5	8,302	1,262,027
Aug 14, 2021	118.8	5,679	408,645
Dec 13, 2021	151.5	6,218	349,625
Sep 11, 2021	216.5	4,540	243,569
Sep 9, 2020	18.5	11,645	215,432

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.