Essex County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Essex County, New York had 40 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.33 times the US outage time per person and 5.41 times the New York rate. It ranks 3 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

71 hrslongest major outage

May, Novhardest months

May and November made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 5, 2018, reached 14,418 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.0 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	120,366	39	2
2016	95,960	54	1
2017	170,219	54	3
2018	798,567	74	12
2019	282,133	52	4
2020	176,933	58	5
2021	198,037	52	5
2022	537,450	46	4
2023	313,813	57	4

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
May 5, 2018	71.0	14,418	508,692
Nov 1, 2019	68.0	9,373	210,968
Apr 19, 2022	63.5	7,360	202,309
Dec 16, 2022	55.2	12,522	159,319
Mar 14, 2023	31.5	14,524	120,116

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.