Chautauqua County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chautauqua County, New York had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.54 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the New York rate. It ranks 50 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

47 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aprhardest months

March and April made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 9,504 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 31.5 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	114,090	65	1
2016	71,916	57	0
2017	224,432	59	3
2018	241,013	63	3
2019	134,384	64	3
2020	210,707	64	3
2021	74,160	40	2
2022	102,343	62	2
2023	299,639	55	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
Apr 1, 2023	31.5	9,504	164,346
Mar 8, 2017	34.0	13,045	145,553
Mar 2, 2018	47.2	4,360	90,098
Nov 15, 2020	19.2	7,821	78,090
Jul 20, 2023	16.5	8,250	62,671

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.