Herkimer County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Herkimer County, New York had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.65 times the US outage time per person and 2.69 times the New York rate. It ranks 14 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

89 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Janhardest months

April and January made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 19, 2022, reached 15,496 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 88.8 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	128,403	42	3
2016	259,143	63	4
2017	178,475	50	3
2018	253,895	52	6
2019	266,834	47	6
2020	307,459	61	5
2021	124,713	47	4
2022	567,860	39	3
2023	81,719	38	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	88.8	15,496	431,644
Nov 1, 2019	71.0	2,883	111,208
May 15, 2020	22.0	5,023	67,267
Jan 10, 2016	22.2	4,156	65,583
Mar 2, 2018	38.8	4,965	51,547

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.