Churchill County, Nevada Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Churchill County, Nevada had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.29 times the US outage time per person and 1.21 times the Nevada rate. It ranks 9 of 11 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

8 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2019, reached 2,773 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 8.2 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
2015	3,714	7	0
2016	37,193	24	0
2017	4,055	9	0
2018	4,686	7	0
2019	30,436	14	1
2020	13,587	11	0
2021	36,322	17	1
2022	9,525	8	0
2023	24,662	14	0

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
Oct 29, 2019	8.2	2,773	19,257
Aug 1, 2021	2.2	7,730	17,384
Jan 1, 2023	5.2	4,495	16,218
Jan 22, 2016	6.0	2,450	5,434
May 25, 2016	1.5	4,716	4,692

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.