Laramie County, Wyoming Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Laramie County, Wyoming had 3 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.14 times the US outage time per person and 0.43 times the Wyoming rate. It ranks 16 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

2 of 8years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aprhardest months

March and April made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 15, 2020, reached 19,300 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.5 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.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	19,048	8	0
2017	9,609	15	0
2018	10,074	18	0
2019	37,428	42	1
2020	92,874	29	2
2021	44,609	38	0
2022	25,326	28	0
2023	31,859	26	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
Mar 15, 2020	30.5	19,300	70,472
Apr 20, 2019	9.0	3,022	12,858
Mar 15, 2020	10.5	2,304	7,472
Mar 14, 2021	3.8	1,852	6,690
Dec 26, 2023	2.0	3,951	6,324

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.