Columbia County, Washington Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

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Columbia County, Washington had no major outages from 2017 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 7 years of records.

0.0major outages per year

0 of 7years with a major outage

Nonelongest major outage

Sep, Janhardest months

September and January made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 19, 2020, reached 2,042 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 5.0 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
2017	82	1
2018	4,469	3
2019	9,956	10
2020	7,288	5
2021	4,156	4
2022	2,155	2
2023	786	2

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
Sep 19, 2020	5.0	2,042	5,602
Oct 14, 2019	3.2	1,391	4,291
Jan 24, 2018	3.5	1,056	3,695
Jan 1, 2021	3.5	488	1,705
Jan 9, 2022	0.8	2,010	1,476

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.
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