Rensselaer County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rensselaer County, New York had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.29 times the US outage time per person and 2.09 times the New York rate. It ranks 22 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 7, 2020, reached 41,294 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.0 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	169,479	100	1
2016	250,728	89	2
2017	401,434	78	5
2018	458,050	131	4
2019	345,724	81	6
2020	1,515,058	98	5
2021	253,213	100	2
2022	343,852	110	4
2023	823,522	108	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
Oct 7, 2020	84.0	41,294	1,281,092
Mar 14, 2023	62.5	23,478	437,965
May 5, 2017	33.5	14,546	133,392
Sep 8, 2023	44.0	5,372	123,540
Mar 2, 2018	60.0	5,437	84,451

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.