Carson City, Nevada Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Carson City, Nevada had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.45 times the US outage time per person and 1.89 times the Nevada rate. It ranks 7 of 11 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Aughardest months

January and August made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 1, 2023, reached 9,209 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 93.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	33,132	19	1
2016	60,908	26	0
2017	41,230	18	0
2018	27,952	22	0
2019	22,392	22	0
2020	16,029	16	1
2021	15,758	14	0
2022	29,488	17	1
2023	325,386	38	2

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
Jan 1, 2023	93.5	9,209	268,056
Aug 31, 2016	4.2	11,297	28,574
Jun 28, 2015	9.0	3,454	26,922
Aug 15, 2023	8.0	2,321	16,604
Nov 16, 2017	3.0	4,141	12,393

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.