Modesto Irrigation District, CA
Power reliability at Modesto Irrigation District
Modesto Irrigation District customers in California rarely lose power at all: 0.4 interruptions last year, adding up to just 36 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 89% less outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
How long a single Modesto Irrigation District outage runs
At an average of 85 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do Modesto Irrigation District customers need a generator
Most Modesto Irrigation District customers keep power almost all year. Serving 121,547 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
Modesto Irrigation District filed these numbers itself, as a political-subdivision utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire California territory, serving 121,547 customers here, not a single street or outage. See California as a whole, across every utility that filed: California's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.