Fulton County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fulton County, New York had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.54 times the US outage time per person and 2.50 times the New York rate. It ranks 15 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Novhardest months

April and November made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 19, 2022, reached 13,567 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 59.2 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	25,282	19	0
2016	133,170	44	3
2017	185,934	35	6
2018	312,274	44	4
2019	302,616	23	2
2020	263,391	49	5
2021	101,156	43	1
2022	412,974	42	2
2023	29,488	23	2

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 19, 2022	59.2	13,567	324,862
Nov 1, 2019	64.2	7,186	236,884
May 4, 2018	66.2	7,101	187,630
Apr 27, 2020	22.5	3,738	57,504
Feb 8, 2017	22.2	4,344	45,109

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.