Sullivan County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sullivan County, New York had 71 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.78 times the US outage time per person and 6.13 times the New York rate. It ranks 2 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

124 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Mayhardest months

March and May made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 30,056 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.0 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	450,840	102	6
2016	325,068	86	9
2017	355,828	108	4
2018	3,269,158	132	9
2019	433,903	118	7
2020	720,252	107	10
2021	393,440	166	13
2022	353,368	133	4
2023	384,705	147	9

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 2, 2018	83.0	30,056	1,457,779
May 15, 2018	124.0	20,189	1,074,526
Mar 6, 2018	94.8	10,813	463,696
Aug 4, 2020	93.2	12,651	371,066
Nov 1, 2019	46.8	12,119	136,193

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.