Oswego County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oswego County, New York had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.84 times the US outage time per person and 1.37 times the New York rate. It ranks 36 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Octhardest months

April and October made up 31% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 15, 2018, reached 14,521 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	189,433	84	2
2016	182,622	85	3
2017	212,505	54	4
2018	532,890	89	7
2019	231,149	66	2
2020	113,316	72	1
2021	310,980	110	6
2022	270,925	92	4
2023	147,916	88	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
Apr 15, 2018	45.5	14,521	184,746
Oct 15, 2017	26.0	12,299	90,932
Oct 31, 2019	45.0	6,714	90,173
Apr 4, 2018	30.5	8,551	78,611
Feb 25, 2019	30.2	8,154	61,823

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.