Del Norte County, California Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Del Norte County, California had 33 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.65 times the US outage time per person and 6.30 times the California rate. It ranks 12 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

4.7major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

178 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Novhardest months

August and November made up 67% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 18, 2023, reached 12,963 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 177.5 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
2017	30,682	7	0
2018	105,502	22	2
2019	243,326	37	6
2020	112,041	20	1
2021	141,623	25	6
2022	241,865	30	7
2023	1,736,870	56	11

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 18, 2023	177.5	12,963	1,419,156
Nov 26, 2019	33.2	11,663	122,908
Jan 16, 2020	92.2	2,341	85,078
Mar 12, 2022	8.0	12,804	69,539
Mar 28, 2023	3.8	12,857	48,214

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.