Davis County, Utah Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Davis County, Utah had 2 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.29 times the US outage time per person and 0.77 times the Utah rate. It ranks 11 of 25 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 7years with a major outage

156 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 8, 2020, reached 39,446 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 155.8 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
2017	57,878	33	0
2018	106,966	80	0
2019	168,822	98	0
2020	1,125,124	82	1
2021	174,290	110	1
2022	112,683	86	0
2023	128,726	87	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
Sep 8, 2020	155.8	39,446	1,003,561
Mar 29, 2019	40.0	1,189	22,717
Aug 18, 2021	13.8	5,400	20,892
Mar 18, 2020	4.5	8,828	16,943
Sep 16, 2017	19.0	1,718	16,454

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.