City of Burbank Water and Power, CA
City of Burbank Water and Power's outage record
0.8 separate outages last year, 2.9 hours without power in total - that is City of Burbank Water and Power's record for California, running ahead of the national median. That is 49% less outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Burbank Water and Power looks like
Outages here average 3.6 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Burbank Water and Power customers need a generator
Serving 54,898 customers here, City of Burbank Water and Power customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
City of Burbank Water and Power filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire California territory, serving 54,898 customers here, not a single street or outage. See California as a whole, across every utility that filed: California's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.