Lake County, California Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Lake County, California had 50 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 9.02 times the US outage time per person and 10.05 times the California rate. It ranks 7 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

8.3major outages per year

6 of 6years with a major outage

158 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 77% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 24, 2023, reached 34,111 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 158.5 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	742,129	43	7
2019	4,377,084	119	6
2020	1,251,208	202	11
2021	727,870	89	12
2022	270,294	122	7
2023	1,596,338	106	7

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
Feb 24, 2023	158.5	34,111	1,259,055
Oct 27, 2020	24.8	21,078	421,669
Oct 10, 2019	11.8	39,555	384,068
Oct 29, 2019	8.0	39,552	307,024
Oct 15, 2018	42.8	12,139	280,096

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.