Tompkins County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Tompkins County, New York had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.53 times the US outage time per person and 0.86 times the New York rate. It ranks 53 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

38 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 24, 2022, reached 12,355 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 12.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	77,106	44	1
2016	90,570	46	0
2017	111,744	47	2
2018	138,885	53	3
2019	177,666	77	3
2020	78,196	57	1
2021	185,865	75	3
2022	214,561	72	2
2023	150,536	51	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
Jul 24, 2022	12.0	12,355	52,005
Jun 27, 2023	10.2	4,757	36,075
Apr 1, 2023	18.5	4,012	27,229
Mar 2, 2018	37.5	2,001	25,719
Jun 29, 2021	18.0	5,229	24,926

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.