Sacramento County, California Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sacramento County, California had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.48 times the US outage time per person and 0.54 times the California rate. It ranks 41 of 55 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

136 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Octhardest months

January and October made up 74% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 8, 2023, reached 294,707 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 136.5 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.

2.5M

7.5M

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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	512,097	219	0
2016	571,876	259	1
2017	1,295,549	359	3
2018	465,048	355	0
2019	1,414,370	383	3
2020	499,485	380	0
2021	3,100,004	406	3
2022	602,411	386	1
2023	8,709,796	348	5

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 8, 2023	136.5	294,707	3,632,076
Jan 8, 2023	8.2	348,829	2,391,257
Jan 27, 2021	62.5	156,263	2,288,874
Jan 1, 2023	129.8	175,559	2,053,487
Jan 6, 2019	52.5	135,474	584,083

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.