Calaveras County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Calaveras County, California had 97 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 12.93 times the US outage time per person and 14.41 times the California rate. It ranks 2 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

16.2major outages per year

6 of 6years with a major outage

126 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 27, 2021, reached 10,956 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 85.5 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
2018	131,557	26	2
2019	2,902,389	154	14
2020	1,615,368	106	10
2021	2,220,011	106	28
2022	993,948	123	17
2023	956,463	168	26

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
Dec 27, 2021	85.5	10,956	773,552
Jan 30, 2021	126.5	5,555	468,889
Oct 27, 2020	23.5	17,550	286,692
Jan 1, 2022	65.0	7,133	261,789
Oct 28, 2019	6.8	30,502	203,282

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.