Livingston County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Livingston County, New York had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.61 times the US outage time per person and 1.00 times the New York rate. It ranks 47 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

73 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 5,009 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 72.8 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	51,763	48	0
2016	57,370	48	0
2017	144,600	37	3
2018	215,761	55	2
2019	88,763	47	4
2020	52,497	40	1
2021	82,172	40	3
2022	110,530	37	3
2023	27,617	35	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
Mar 2, 2018	72.8	5,009	102,032
Mar 8, 2017	48.0	2,310	68,012
Apr 4, 2018	30.2	5,502	50,421
Jun 16, 2022	27.5	5,581	42,129
May 1, 2017	22.5	1,873	29,841

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.