Montgomery County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Montgomery County, New York had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.72 times the US outage time per person and 1.18 times the New York rate. It ranks 39 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

42 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Octhardest months

March and October made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 7, 2020, reached 4,489 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	78,699	27	3
2016	32,566	19	0
2017	87,977	32	4
2018	174,072	37	3
2019	96,942	35	2
2020	114,098	30	2
2021	60,207	33	1
2022	103,236	42	3
2023	43,591	43	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
Oct 7, 2020	30.0	4,489	78,019
Mar 2, 2018	34.2	3,408	59,737
Nov 1, 2019	42.2	2,956	59,532
May 5, 2018	16.5	3,252	46,587
Aug 3, 2015	18.0	2,509	29,798

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.