Queens County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Queens County, New York had 1 major outage from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.14 times the US outage time per person and 0.23 times the New York rate. It ranks 58 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 9years with a major outage

224 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 69% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 52,750 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 224.2 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	213,542	169	0
2016	232,291	136	0
2017	232,500	170	0
2018	554,664	203	0
2019	512,286	180	0
2020	4,427,040	172	1
2021	416,757	213	0
2022	323,622	292	0
2023	227,536	173	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
Aug 4, 2020	224.2	52,750	4,035,986
Jul 20, 2019	50.5	18,381	176,216
Jul 23, 2019	24.2	10,435	103,550
Dec 17, 2020	145.5	1,502	92,048
Mar 3, 2018	7.5	8,175	53,602

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.