Solano County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Solano County, California had 25 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.96 times the US outage time per person and 1.07 times the California rate. It ranks 28 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

5 of 6years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 19, 2020, reached 12,615 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.8 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	193,467	104	0
2019	2,598,356	232	5
2020	1,255,617	238	5
2021	1,060,859	249	7
2022	478,141	232	1
2023	815,004	255	7

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
Aug 19, 2020	45.8	12,615	354,915
Oct 28, 2019	6.8	40,586	267,979
Jan 27, 2021	34.5	21,975	252,646
Oct 28, 2019	6.5	32,139	205,289
Oct 27, 2019	4.5	45,781	200,757

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.