Cortland County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cortland County, New York had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.48 times the US outage time per person and 0.78 times the New York rate. It ranks 55 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

65 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 19, 2022, reached 3,236 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 64.8 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	38,279	23	1
2016	39,017	23	2
2017	69,019	31	2
2018	44,224	46	0
2019	51,311	40	1
2020	30,112	24	0
2021	61,822	37	3
2022	119,554	25	2
2023	31,365	22	1

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 19, 2022	64.8	3,236	91,282
May 18, 2017	21.0	2,079	14,786
Jul 17, 2021	17.5	1,693	13,403
Jan 11, 2017	10.0	2,840	12,889
Sep 7, 2023	9.5	1,530	10,688

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.