Hampshire County, Massachusetts Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hampshire County, Massachusetts had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.59 times the Massachusetts rate. It ranks 11 of 12 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

82 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 13,422 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.5 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	61,409	58	0
2016	94,231	74	0
2017	154,810	62	1
2018	75,420	85	0
2019	244,512	45	4
2020	743,124	72	2
2021	157,698	84	2
2022	109,471	77	2
2023	249,656	81	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
Aug 4, 2020	81.5	13,422	356,656
Oct 7, 2020	54.0	16,358	297,482
Feb 25, 2019	35.0	12,304	132,324
Mar 14, 2023	42.5	11,129	131,300
Nov 15, 2017	4.0	29,373	67,038

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.