Clinton County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Clinton County, New York had 10 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.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

69 hrslongest major outage

May, Dechardest months

May and December made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 5, 2018, reached 17,251 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	59,430	49	0
2016	62,557	50	2
2017	51,116	48	0
2018	652,140	80	4
2019	167,568	52	1
2020	43,163	55	0
2021	204,798	52	1
2022	161,092	58	2
2023	52,808	58	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
May 5, 2018	68.8	17,251	486,993
Dec 12, 2021	46.0	7,492	159,740
Nov 1, 2019	54.0	3,782	84,054
Dec 16, 2022	34.5	4,623	59,172
Apr 19, 2022	36.0	4,107	47,830

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.