Humboldt County, Nevada Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Humboldt County, Nevada had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.76 times the US outage time per person and 3.22 times the Nevada rate. It ranks 3 of 11 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

13 hrslongest major outage

May, Aprhardest months

May and April made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 7, 2023, reached 5,199 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 3.8 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
2015	17,408	14	0
2016	23,082	19	0
2017	41,018	16	3
2018	28,942	19	0
2019	23,638	19	0
2020	17,247	12	0
2021	28,246	15	1
2022	36,059	16	1
2023	72,204	19	4

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
Apr 7, 2023	3.8	5,199	14,490
Mar 30, 2017	8.8	4,061	11,740
Jul 18, 2023	3.5	3,103	9,278
Jun 6, 2023	12.8	949	8,693
May 5, 2023	12.0	664	7,919

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.