Ulster County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ulster County, New York had 94 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.90 times the US outage time per person and 4.70 times the New York rate. It ranks 5 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

10.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

112 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 4, 2022, reached 47,925 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 112.0 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	463,340	208	8
2016	572,447	215	7
2017	1,049,846	188	11
2018	2,019,894	240	12
2019	844,896	200	7
2020	1,168,708	227	12
2021	1,121,995	232	21
2022	3,435,719	196	11
2023	986,532	219	5

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
Feb 4, 2022	112.0	47,925	2,354,937
Mar 2, 2018	87.0	29,745	802,877
Sep 7, 2023	48.0	19,783	409,300
Aug 4, 2020	66.0	14,197	394,368
Mar 7, 2018	46.8	19,596	343,914

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.