Berkshire County, Massachusetts Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Berkshire County, Massachusetts had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.76 times the US outage time per person and 0.86 times the Massachusetts rate. It ranks 6 of 12 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

77 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 19,280 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 76.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	107,261	84	1
2016	120,166	95	3
2017	102,104	72	2
2018	130,437	94	3
2019	251,924	62	4
2020	674,063	87	2
2021	113,317	84	3
2022	168,866	91	5
2023	476,521	79	4

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 4, 2020	76.8	19,280	400,251
Mar 14, 2023	62.0	25,030	354,864
Oct 7, 2020	51.5	16,708	200,410
Oct 17, 2019	61.2	7,299	118,333
Feb 25, 2019	32.2	8,647	68,366

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.