Putnam County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Putnam County, New York had 49 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.55 times the US outage time per person and 7.39 times the New York rate. It ranks 1 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

143 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aughardest months

March and August made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 37,964 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 126.0 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	166,728	75	4
2016	509,780	113	5
2017	587,468	117	9
2018	4,580,536	130	6
2019	243,632	113	4
2020	3,008,791	100	6
2021	238,878	117	4
2022	256,154	110	5
2023	267,366	102	6

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
Aug 4, 2020	126.0	37,964	2,300,898
Mar 2, 2018	87.0	26,599	1,802,271
May 15, 2018	143.2	33,341	1,719,741
Mar 6, 2018	94.8	19,790	852,381
Apr 13, 2020	49.5	18,449	348,543

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.