Cattaraugus County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cattaraugus County, New York had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.98 times the US outage time per person and 1.59 times the New York rate. It ranks 31 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aprhardest months

March and April made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 14,233 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 94.2 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	71,870	60	1
2016	42,338	42	0
2017	242,297	51	7
2018	607,916	33	3
2019	102,563	41	3
2020	243,974	46	6
2021	91,391	44	2
2022	67,342	39	1
2023	159,627	35	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
Mar 2, 2018	94.2	14,233	514,257
Apr 1, 2023	32.5	6,916	103,213
Mar 8, 2017	40.0	8,689	95,596
Sep 7, 2020	32.5	7,303	71,492
Nov 15, 2020	18.5	3,029	45,525

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.