St. Lawrence County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

St. Lawrence County, New York had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 1.08 times the New York rate. It ranks 44 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

65 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aprhardest months

December and April made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 4, 2018, reached 11,498 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 51.5 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.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	57,972	47	2
2016	69,217	72	0
2017	67,152	51	2
2018	360,624	65	2
2019	225,003	43	1
2020	108,892	65	3
2021	286,464	70	2
2022	296,935	82	4
2023	86,592	57	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
Apr 4, 2018	51.5	11,498	199,600
Dec 11, 2021	48.8	8,769	169,934
Nov 1, 2019	64.8	10,948	168,718
Jun 16, 2022	29.5	8,031	97,034
May 5, 2018	46.8	7,343	85,710

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.