Mason County, Washington Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Mason County, Washington had 11 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.19 times the US outage time per person and 1.48 times the Washington rate. It ranks 12 of 34 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

3 of 5years with a major outage

24 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Dechardest months

January and December made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 13, 2021, reached 23,192 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 20.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Washington counties

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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
2019	29,975	26	0
2020	198,340	76	3
2021	340,242	75	3
2022	315,211	73	5
2023	127,067	58	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
Jan 13, 2021	20.8	23,192	136,527
Dec 23, 2022	24.2	3,980	53,779
Jun 5, 2021	15.2	4,171	53,130
Mar 22, 2022	13.0	5,291	51,588
Oct 13, 2020	16.0	4,770	30,838

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.