Onondaga County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Onondaga County, New York had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.33 times the US outage time per person and 0.54 times the New York rate. It ranks 56 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

32 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Mayhardest months

July and May made up 25% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 7, 2020, reached 19,252 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 22.8 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	325,133	174	0
2016	534,076	181	3
2017	481,016	165	5
2018	398,261	183	4
2019	376,508	140	3
2020	375,075	160	2
2021	364,506	159	2
2022	362,585	176	1
2023	218,291	148	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
Oct 7, 2020	22.8	19,252	81,780
Aug 14, 2016	20.8	12,649	77,614
May 26, 2020	18.0	13,807	76,487
Feb 3, 2016	32.0	5,789	60,796
Jan 15, 2022	5.5	20,532	57,815

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.