Albany County, Wyoming Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Albany County, Wyoming had 5 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 2.09 times the Wyoming rate. It ranks 3 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

26 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 9, 2020, reached 9,664 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 25.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	7,856	7	0
2018	42,355	15	0
2019	27,114	24	1
2020	222,581	22	1
2021	17,971	3	1
2022	86,172	12	2
2023	43,764	7	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
Jun 9, 2020	25.8	9,664	98,410
Aug 1, 2020	6.8	9,723	64,939
Aug 9, 2022	8.2	9,790	59,574
May 16, 2023	4.0	9,786	37,906
Sep 13, 2020	2.2	7,612	17,090

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.