Albany County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Albany County, New York had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.91 times the US outage time per person and 1.48 times the New York rate. It ranks 32 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 7, 2020, reached 67,944 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.0 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	282,435	140	2
2016	282,264	124	0
2017	340,593	128	1
2018	599,706	178	5
2019	667,075	139	6
2020	2,874,312	172	7
2021	426,708	159	5
2022	319,075	151	2
2023	638,635	126	5

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
Oct 7, 2020	45.0	67,944	2,141,659
Oct 9, 2020	51.5	31,989	394,823
Mar 4, 2023	40.5	28,448	290,204
Aug 16, 2019	27.5	11,679	154,810
Mar 2, 2018	56.0	6,986	97,762

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.