Lewis County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lewis County, New York had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.15 times the US outage time per person and 1.87 times the New York rate. It ranks 24 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aprhardest months

December and April made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 11, 2021, reached 6,974 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.5 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	43,942	31	0
2016	32,266	42	0
2017	54,021	34	1
2018	145,466	38	3
2019	79,678	30	2
2020	34,657	37	1
2021	174,256	31	3
2022	77,940	35	2
2023	31,788	24	0

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 11, 2021	47.5	6,974	146,337
May 4, 2018	47.8	4,541	58,118
Apr 18, 2022	43.5	3,307	53,842
Apr 4, 2018	33.8	3,694	48,672
Nov 1, 2019	42.5	2,316	41,198

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.