Orleans County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.66 times the US outage time per person and 2.70 times the New York rate. It ranks 13 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

84 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Dechardest months

March and December made up 74% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 8, 2017, reached 11,252 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.2 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	13,001	20	0
2016	15,716	18	0
2017	579,408	26	2
2018	116,154	41	3
2019	123,134	40	2
2020	53,057	33	2
2021	290,467	24	1
2022	229,541	28	2
2023	30,223	26	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 8, 2017	84.2	11,252	548,296
Dec 11, 2021	65.2	8,067	259,854
Dec 23, 2022	59.8	5,138	148,998
Feb 24, 2019	28.2	4,527	68,443
Mar 6, 2022	28.2	5,266	54,345

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.