Franklin County, Massachusetts Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin County, Massachusetts had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.91 times the US outage time per person and 1.03 times the Massachusetts rate. It ranks 4 of 12 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

98 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 7, 2020, reached 9,863 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.8 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	47,624	40	0
2016	82,133	54	2
2017	100,808	56	3
2018	83,126	65	3
2019	208,828	31	4
2020	404,562	51	5
2021	55,254	47	1
2022	100,146	57	3
2023	337,906	63	3

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
Oct 7, 2020	53.8	9,863	226,145
Mar 14, 2023	60.0	8,588	195,789
Oct 17, 2019	98.5	5,146	140,384
Aug 4, 2020	49.5	6,352	94,955
Jan 23, 2023	57.8	3,103	81,580

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.