Oneida County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oneida County, New York had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.56 times the US outage time per person and 0.91 times the New York rate. It ranks 49 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

67 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Marhardest months

April and March made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 15,338 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 54.0 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	121,528	103	1
2016	361,036	137	3
2017	298,625	104	5
2018	643,030	111	7
2019	318,162	91	3
2020	220,204	101	2
2021	285,815	89	6
2022	444,192	99	5
2023	135,424	92	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
Mar 2, 2018	54.0	15,338	235,706
Apr 19, 2022	63.5	9,835	221,680
Apr 15, 2018	50.5	9,875	142,970
Oct 31, 2019	67.2	5,365	117,688
Jan 11, 2017	24.0	15,307	91,594

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.