Humboldt County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Humboldt County, California had 89 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.22 times the US outage time per person and 6.94 times the California rate. It ranks 10 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

14.8major outages per year

6 of 6years with a major outage

235 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 20, 2022, reached 71,791 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.8 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
2018	110,152	49	3
2019	4,549,782	235	16
2020	1,048,279	191	10
2021	1,773,840	194	22
2022	2,140,907	189	11
2023	2,466,838	209	27

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 20, 2022	35.8	71,791	1,309,194
Feb 24, 2023	235.0	10,069	664,136
Nov 26, 2019	46.2	22,806	642,150
Jan 16, 2020	65.8	65,606	591,912
Oct 28, 2019	6.8	70,363	469,468

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.