Saratoga County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Saratoga County, New York had 52 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.

5.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

79 hrslongest major outage

May, Novhardest months

May and November made up 31% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 7, 2020, reached 48,632 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 57.8 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	493,767	105	3
2016	424,029	129	3
2017	739,696	125	10
2018	1,031,132	144	6
2019	1,283,487	114	5
2020	2,447,222	153	9
2021	443,388	145	4
2022	772,094	142	8
2023	444,867	112	4

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
Feb 7, 2020	57.8	48,632	904,171
Nov 1, 2019	79.0	31,994	797,160
Oct 7, 2020	45.2	18,982	506,921
May 15, 2020	21.0	32,746	429,267
May 5, 2018	71.0	15,691	404,952

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.