Delaware County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Delaware County, New York had 43 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.93 times the US outage time per person and 3.13 times the New York rate. It ranks 9 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

83 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 20, 2022, reached 8,426 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.5 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	74,792	32	2
2016	209,671	49	4
2017	120,590	46	3
2018	226,644	63	4
2019	138,722	45	4
2020	149,756	50	5
2021	211,041	72	8
2022	616,517	48	6
2023	127,604	48	7

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	70.5	8,426	305,790
Mar 2, 2018	83.2	5,824	135,246
Apr 19, 2022	9.0	9,291	79,033
Jul 24, 2022	38.5	3,760	77,815
Mar 8, 2022	46.0	1,762	49,875

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.