Schenectady County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Schenectady County, New York had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.85 times the US outage time per person and 1.38 times the New York rate. It ranks 34 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

45 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 7, 2020, reached 31,874 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	191,265	77	0
2016	190,325	79	1
2017	248,908	79	4
2018	260,738	93	2
2019	302,697	81	5
2020	1,237,804	79	5
2021	97,193	72	1
2022	173,966	74	2
2023	321,128	71	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
Oct 7, 2020	45.2	31,874	945,536
Mar 4, 2023	27.8	11,032	124,783
Oct 9, 2020	29.5	11,061	102,796
Nov 1, 2019	44.8	5,007	97,537
May 5, 2018	28.8	6,933	70,327

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.