City of Vernon, CA
How often City of Vernon goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Vernon's California customers went without power for only 33 minutes across 0.7 separate outages last year. That is 91% less outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here typically run short, about 48 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Vernon
Serving 2,031 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Vernon customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of Vernon's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Vernon files with federal regulators every year - serving 2,031 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the California average instead of just this one utility? California's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.