Chenango County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chenango County, New York had 36 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.51 times the US outage time per person and 4.08 times the New York rate. It ranks 7 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Mayhardest months

April and May made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 20, 2022, reached 16,355 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 80.5 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	115,060	29	2
2016	248,067	52	5
2017	360,932	56	6
2018	143,099	72	3
2019	61,663	43	3
2020	130,899	49	5
2021	159,152	62	4
2022	1,203,768	78	5
2023	105,421	43	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 20, 2022	80.5	16,355	704,787
May 2, 2017	66.2	9,496	229,769
Apr 19, 2022	9.0	16,520	141,062
Jul 24, 2022	41.5	5,526	126,262
Aug 13, 2016	45.8	5,309	107,979

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.