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1. [1] U.S. Census Bureau (2023 American Housing Survey, sponsored by HUD) — About 1 in 4 Households Experienced a Power Outage in the Span of a Year Đã xác minh Báo cáo chính phủ

   About 1 in 4 Households Experienced a Power Outage in the Span of a Year

   Thống kê

   1 in 4 US households (33.9 million) had a complete power outage in the prior 12 months; ~70% (23.6 million) had an outage lasting 6 hours or more

   Trích đoạn

   “"About 33.9 million or 1 in 4 households nationwide reported they were completely without power at least once in the 12 months before they were interviewed for the 2023 American Housing Survey (AHS). … Approximately 70% or 23.6 million of the households reporting an outage said at least one outage lasted 6 hours or more." ”

   Dữ liệu nguồn từ

   2024-10-02

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   2026-06-21 · bản sao lưu trữ

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   Tính toán

   The AHS is the cleanest household-level base rate for outage exposure: nationally representative, self-reported, and duration-bucketed. The publicly summarized figure tops out at the 6+ hour category (~18% of all households per year). This entry narrows from that 6-hour threshold to the ≥24-hour threshold the question fixes by treating multi-day outages as the long weather tail of the 6+ hour distribution (see Do et al.), estimating roughly a quarter to a third of 6+ hour household-outages reach ≥24h, i.e. ~5% per household-year. The AHS sets the upper envelope: if 18% of households see a 6+ hour outage in a single year, multi-day exposure over a 59-year adult life is common, not rare.

   Độc lập

   Household survey methodology (self-report, nationally representative sample), independent of the utility-reported SAIDI data and the county-level outage-detection methodology in Do et al.

2. [2] Nature Communications / Do V, McBrien H, Flores NM, et al. — Spatiotemporal distribution of power outages with climate events and social vulnerability in the USA Được bình duyệt

   Spatiotemporal distribution of power outages with climate events and social vulnerability in the USA

   Thống kê

   62.1% of 8+ hour outages co-occur with extreme weather/climate events; 70.5% of studied US counties (73.7% of population) had at least one 8+ hour outage over 2018-2020, county median 2 per year

   Trích đoạn

   “"62.1% of 8+ hour outages co-occur with extreme weather/climate events, particularly heavy precipitation, anomalous heat, and tropical cyclones. … 8+ hour outages were 3.4x more common on days with a single event and 10x more common on days with multiple events." ”

   Dữ liệu nguồn từ

   2023-04-29

   Truy cập

   2026-06-21 · bản sao lưu trữ

   Tính toán

   Do et al. analyzed ~231,000 1+ hour outages and ~17,500 8+ hour outages across 2,447 counties (73.7% of US population) from 2018-2020 using utility outage-tracker data. The key contribution for this entry is the bridge from "any 6+ hour outage" to "prolonged multi-day outage": 8+ hour outages are weather-driven (62.1% co-occur with extreme weather) and the multi-day tail is the hurricane/ice/derecho tail of that same distribution. The finding that 70.5% of counties saw at least one 8+ hour outage in just three years independently corroborates that long-duration outage exposure is common over a lifetime, supporting a lifetime estimate near 1 in 2 rather than the low single-digit annual rate alone would naively suggest.

   Độc lập

   Uses county-level utility outage-tracker detection, methodologically independent of the AHS self-report survey and the FERC/NERC and DOE event reconstructions.

3. [3] U.S. Energy Information Administration — Hurricanes in 2024 led to the most hours without power in the United States in 10 years Đã xác minh Báo cáo chính phủ

   Hurricanes in 2024 led to the most hours without power in the United States in 10 years

   Thống kê

   US customers averaged 11 hours of electricity interruptions in 2024 (~2x the prior decade's average); major events accounted for 80% of those hours; major-event interruptions averaged ~9 hours vs ~4 hours/year in 2014-2023

   Trích đoạn

   “"U.S. electricity customers experienced an average of 11 hours of electricity interruptions in 2024, or nearly twice as many as the annual average experienced in the decade before. … Major events such as Hurricanes Beryl, Helene, and Milton accounted for 80% of the hours without electricity in 2024." ”

   Dữ liệu nguồn từ

   2025-12-01

   Truy cập

   2026-06-21 · bản sao lưu trữ

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   Tính toán

   EIA's SAIDI data establishes two things this entry relies on. First, the trend: average interruption hours doubled from ~5.6 (2022) to 11 (2024), driven almost entirely by major weather events (80% of 2024 hours), which is the era/climate factor behind the rising-trend multiplier. Second, the structure: routine non-major interruptions hold steady at ~2 hours/year, so the multi-day outages this entry counts are overwhelmingly the major-event tail, not everyday flickers. SAIDI is an average-hours metric, not a per-household incidence rate, so it is used here for trend and attribution rather than as the native probability — that comes from the AHS.

   Độc lập

   Utility-reported SAIDI/SAIFI aggregated by EIA, independent of the AHS household survey and the academic county-level analysis.

4. [4] Lloyd's of London / University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies — Business Blackout: The insurance implications of a cyber attack on the US power grid Đã xác minh Nguồn tham khảo

   Business Blackout: The insurance implications of a cyber attack on the US power grid

   Thống kê

   Hypothetical Erebos cyberattack on 50 Northeastern US generators leaves 93 million people across 15 states (including NYC and Washington DC) without power; ~$243bn to >$1trn US economic impact

   Trích đoạn

   “"The attackers are able to inflict physical damage on 50 generators which supply power to the electrical grid in the Northeastern USA, including New York City and Washington DC. … it triggers a wider blackout which leaves 93 million people without power. … The total impact to the US economy is estimated at $243bn, rising to more than $1trn in the most extreme version of the scenario." ”

   Dữ liệu nguồn từ

   2015-07-06

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   2026-06-21 · bản sao lưu trữ

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   Tính toán

   This source supplies the cause-agnostic tail: a cyberattack is one of the four causes this entry folds together, and the Lloyd's/Cambridge Erebos scenario quantifies the worst-case cyber path (93 million people, 15 states). It is a scenario study, not a frequency estimate, so it does not enter the probability arithmetic — it bounds the severity tail and demonstrates that the multi-day regional blackout this entry counts is reachable by cyber means, not only weather. No publicly fetched figure supports a "1:200 return period" attribution, so that claim is deliberately not cited here.

   Độc lập

   Insurance-industry scenario modelling by the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, independent of all three empirical outage datasets above.