Kings County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kings County, New York had 1 major outage from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.06 times the US outage time per person and 0.10 times the New York rate. It ranks 60 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 23,146 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 204.0 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	483,459	141	0
2016	228,713	101	0
2017	244,570	89	0
2018	176,610	97	0
2019	771,341	116	1
2020	863,319	82	0
2021	365,966	122	0
2022	260,570	179	0
2023	105,624	56	0

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	204.0	23,146	544,632
Jul 21, 2019	29.2	35,638	437,494
Dec 18, 2020	135.2	2,343	185,566
Jul 23, 2019	28.2	7,408	83,164
Feb 10, 2017	95.2	1,830	79,482

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.