Washington County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, New York had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.87 times the US outage time per person and 3.04 times the New York rate. It ranks 11 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

65 hrslongest major outage

May, Octhardest months

May and October made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 18, 2017, reached 13,786 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	63,120	48	2
2016	180,961	67	6
2017	491,140	57	6
2018	411,303	92	7
2019	195,249	55	2
2020	438,962	87	7
2021	114,639	66	4
2022	268,196	83	7
2023	297,952	62	3

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
May 18, 2017	45.8	13,786	252,516
May 5, 2018	46.5	7,401	202,256
Feb 7, 2020	56.2	7,942	160,395
Mar 14, 2023	50.0	9,436	151,787
Oct 31, 2019	64.8	4,044	111,946

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.