Worcester County, Massachusetts Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Worcester County, Massachusetts had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.68 times the US outage time per person and 0.77 times the Massachusetts rate. It ranks 8 of 12 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

90 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Octhardest months

March and October made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 70,225 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 80.2 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	449,314	265	1
2016	766,312	322	1
2017	1,379,886	261	3
2018	2,277,018	331	2
2019	1,198,482	267	3
2020	3,639,962	325	7
2021	857,460	341	4
2022	713,014	325	1
2023	1,827,048	287	4

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
Aug 4, 2020	80.2	70,225	1,567,204
Mar 8, 2018	52.2	64,022	1,417,018
Oct 7, 2020	78.5	44,540	911,752
Oct 30, 2017	66.8	43,714	788,424
Mar 14, 2023	58.8	30,832	554,386

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.