Franklin County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin County, New York had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.07 times the US outage time per person and 1.73 times the New York rate. It ranks 27 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

May, Dechardest months

May and December made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 4, 2018, reached 8,669 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 65.8 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	35,191	29	2
2016	71,287	42	2
2017	103,936	45	4
2018	324,264	56	2
2019	153,710	44	1
2020	30,280	32	0
2021	185,898	40	3
2022	146,799	47	3
2023	55,160	39	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
May 4, 2018	65.8	8,669	205,561
Nov 1, 2019	72.2	4,789	121,834
Dec 12, 2021	49.5	4,402	107,956
Apr 4, 2018	41.8	3,920	66,241
Apr 19, 2022	36.8	2,830	40,931

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.