Columbia County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Columbia County, New York had 46 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.84 times the US outage time per person and 4.61 times the New York rate. It ranks 6 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Sephardest months

March and September made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 8, 2023, reached 20,477 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 49.2 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	94,766	47	1
2016	285,322	52	5
2017	255,748	69	5
2018	737,098	78	6
2019	238,905	46	6
2020	568,353	77	7
2021	228,253	99	4
2022	318,892	109	7
2023	1,037,143	65	5

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
Sep 8, 2023	49.2	20,477	546,583
Mar 2, 2018	83.8	13,447	480,707
Mar 14, 2023	65.8	14,161	371,683
Oct 7, 2020	49.0	8,964	213,774
Nov 20, 2016	25.2	8,266	104,230

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.