Tioga County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Tioga County, New York had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.54 times the US outage time per person and 2.50 times the New York rate. It ranks 15 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

62 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 20, 2022, reached 8,608 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 61.8 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	113,554	61	3
2016	89,209	54	2
2017	164,244	35	3
2018	127,856	45	3
2019	119,221	48	3
2020	91,420	49	3
2021	265,896	71	4
2022	541,921	58	5
2023	95,449	39	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
Apr 20, 2022	61.8	8,608	250,662
Jul 8, 2021	47.5	4,060	121,225
Mar 8, 2022	56.0	6,914	80,676
Apr 19, 2022	12.8	8,256	78,435
May 2, 2017	48.0	3,531	71,078

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.