Hampden County, Massachusetts Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hampden County, Massachusetts had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 0.76 times the Massachusetts rate. It ranks 9 of 12 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

98 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 56,663 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 97.5 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	120,171	121	0
2016	119,773	130	0
2017	468,932	102	1
2018	129,859	128	0
2019	324,370	78	3
2020	2,617,828	136	3
2021	417,177	155	1
2022	1,895,369	153	4
2023	709,653	141	1

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	97.5	56,663	2,051,338
Oct 30, 2017	45.0	20,329	371,351
Oct 7, 2020	50.5	30,367	350,617
Aug 5, 2022	162.8	2,633	209,429
Sep 15, 2022	145.2	3,527	186,566

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.