Jefferson County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jefferson County, New York had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.54 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the New York rate. It ranks 50 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Novhardest months

December and November made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 1, 2019, reached 6,722 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 88.5 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	92,116	61	0
2016	69,600	50	0
2017	228,842	58	3
2018	168,840	62	2
2019	219,430	66	2
2020	117,363	62	1
2021	180,982	60	1
2022	215,038	73	1
2023	56,382	37	1

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
Nov 1, 2019	88.5	6,722	125,394
Dec 11, 2021	69.5	6,028	104,665
Dec 23, 2022	76.8	3,827	78,037
Sep 30, 2017	20.2	9,118	74,710
Jan 11, 2017	20.2	6,253	45,494

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.