Chemung County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chemung County, New York had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.54 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the New York rate. It ranks 50 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

51 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aprhardest months

July and April made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 26, 2021, reached 3,549 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	54,116	46	0
2016	104,600	39	3
2017	111,377	49	2
2018	124,476	63	3
2019	155,128	55	5
2020	90,177	70	1
2021	104,310	57	1
2022	107,654	65	2
2023	119,931	44	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 26, 2021	30.5	3,549	37,425
Dec 2, 2019	36.5	3,162	35,617
Apr 1, 2023	25.5	5,100	32,196
Mar 2, 2017	29.2	3,168	27,707
Jul 25, 2016	8.0	5,340	24,304

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.