Erie County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Erie County, New York had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.70 times the US outage time per person and 1.14 times the New York rate. It ranks 41 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

129 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Marhardest months

December and March made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 23, 2022, reached 34,999 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 128.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	794,351	271	1
2016	804,089	270	0
2017	2,129,310	281	6
2018	1,522,016	293	5
2019	2,648,412	307	4
2020	1,559,557	312	5
2021	1,371,984	292	2
2022	2,767,001	317	1
2023	1,120,412	271	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
Dec 23, 2022	128.8	34,999	2,121,261
Mar 8, 2017	85.5	38,779	1,120,323
Feb 24, 2019	56.5	48,865	1,092,951
Oct 31, 2019	72.2	52,555	806,217
Dec 11, 2021	51.2	46,288	544,952

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.