Richmond County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Richmond County, New York had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.21 times the US outage time per person and 0.34 times the New York rate. It ranks 57 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

136 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 81% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 37,990 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 136.5 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	225,274	61	1
2016	75,402	69	0
2017	71,371	56	0
2018	0	0	0
2019	14,764	12	0
2020	1,531,111	63	1
2021	129,494	94	0
2022	158,382	103	0
2023	64,614	70	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	136.5	37,990	1,430,633
Jul 20, 2015	20.8	20,244	147,786
Aug 29, 2022	4.0	17,760	37,497
Dec 25, 2020	11.0	4,792	25,472
Aug 13, 2021	4.8	5,986	19,160

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.