Steuben County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Steuben County, New York had 34 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.02 times the US outage time per person and 1.66 times the New York rate. It ranks 29 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

89 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Mayhardest months

March and May made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 8,230 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 89.0 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	190,793	71	5
2016	227,137	68	3
2017	194,985	68	5
2018	489,460	84	3
2019	317,890	90	8
2020	149,269	86	2
2021	173,225	101	3
2022	181,889	87	4
2023	146,263	72	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
Mar 2, 2018	89.0	8,230	322,958
Feb 16, 2016	54.0	6,293	89,907
Dec 2, 2019	33.2	5,277	78,840
Nov 1, 2019	8.8	9,864	49,562
Apr 1, 2023	26.2	3,684	46,595

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.