Allegany County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Allegany County, New York had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.43 times the US outage time per person and 2.32 times the New York rate. It ranks 19 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

96 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Mayhardest months

March and May made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 9,447 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 95.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated New York counties

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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	70,055	31	0
2016	152,670	45	1
2017	297,416	47	6
2018	463,961	34	2
2019	101,641	51	3
2020	161,984	54	5
2021	72,672	48	2
2022	89,192	47	1
2023	75,573	46	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
Mar 2, 2018	95.8	9,447	399,842
May 1, 2017	30.0	8,489	128,252
Feb 16, 2016	33.5	10,167	94,432
Sep 7, 2020	29.0	9,012	69,201
Mar 2, 2017	21.0	6,135	33,833

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.