Turlock Irrigation District, CA
How often Turlock Irrigation District goes out
Turlock Irrigation District customers in California rarely lose power at all: 0.7 interruptions last year, adding up to just 62 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 82% less outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
How long a single Turlock Irrigation District outage runs
A single outage here averages 1.6 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 91,168 customers here, With a record this steady, Turlock Irrigation District customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a political-subdivision utility like Turlock Irrigation District files with federal regulators every year - serving 91,168 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See California as a whole, across every utility that filed: California's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.