Ontario County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ontario County, New York had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.85 times the New York rate. It ranks 54 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

45 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Junhardest months

December and June made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 23, 2022, reached 8,873 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 44.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	117,078	80	0
2016	139,327	63	1
2017	130,043	72	2
2018	155,704	80	2
2019	130,124	82	1
2020	123,890	84	1
2021	160,454	87	3
2022	237,920	94	2
2023	108,414	73	2

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
Dec 23, 2022	44.8	8,873	90,450
Apr 4, 2018	32.0	4,587	64,392
Jun 16, 2022	25.0	7,490	43,586
Dec 12, 2021	22.5	3,500	42,489
Dec 10, 2020	1.2	21,726	22,486

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.