Weston County, Wyoming Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Weston County, Wyoming had 2 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.37 times the US outage time per person and 1.17 times the Wyoming rate. It ranks 8 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 8years with a major outage

11 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 20, 2022, reached 763 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	1,945	1	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	0	0	0
2019	2,868	13	0
2020	10,498	18	2
2021	11,678	25	0
2022	19,127	22	0
2023	3,722	8	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
Apr 20, 2022	5.0	763	3,815
Jul 31, 2020	11.0	1,176	3,606
Apr 10, 2022	4.0	763	3,052
Apr 23, 2022	3.2	791	2,515
Apr 11, 2022	3.2	763	2,480

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.