Hamilton County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Hamilton County, New York had 49 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

5.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

65 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Novhardest months

April and November made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 5, 2018, reached 5,981 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 51.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	127,538	24	4
2016	272,726	58	6
2017	210,344	39	8
2018	579,664	48	6
2019	285,688	32	5
2020	205,554	50	10
2021	126,335	39	3
2022	312,351	31	5
2023	99,568	31	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
May 5, 2018	51.0	5,981	214,044
Apr 19, 2022	58.0	7,289	184,661
Apr 4, 2018	61.2	4,013	153,390
Nov 1, 2019	65.2	5,432	140,418
Aug 13, 2016	20.2	4,366	71,076

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

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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.
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