Otsego County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Otsego County, New York had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.53 times the US outage time per person and 2.48 times the New York rate. It ranks 17 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

112 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Aughardest months

April and August made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 19, 2022, reached 14,809 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 111.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	144,625	30	2
2016	192,728	39	1
2017	203,483	50	4
2018	103,780	62	3
2019	147,220	47	4
2020	208,986	53	4
2021	72,935	57	0
2022	878,959	57	6
2023	81,723	37	2

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 19, 2022	111.5	14,809	634,400
Aug 13, 2016	47.8	4,353	107,159
Oct 7, 2020	45.5	4,377	95,477
Jun 13, 2015	43.5	3,612	84,537
Mar 8, 2022	42.8	4,746	78,258

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.