Power Out Map
– 0% of Fulton out 0 customers out in New York

Power outage history

Fulton County New York

9.8hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

19th most of 62 in New York 1.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 19, 2022 51% of customers out · 90% back in 34 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.8h / yr State average 4.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 7hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.8days May 4, 2018, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 81% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 16 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 26,643 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Fulton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fulton, hours without power per customer

FultonUS median countyNew York average
0 5 10 15 20 1.3 ’15 5.8 ’16 7.9 ’17 13 ’18 12 ’19 11 ’20 4.7 ’21 16 ’22 1.9 ’23 14 ’24 6.6 ’25 US 6.6 NY 4.3

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Apr 19, 2022 Winter storm 13,567 51% 2.4 d 34 h 325k
Nov 1, 2019 Windstorm 7,186 27% 2.7 d 43 h 237k
May 4, 2018 Thunderstorms 7,101 27% 2.8 d 2.3 d 188k
Feb 28, 2024 Windstorm 8,137 31% 47 h 38 h 166k
Dec 29, 2025 Ice storm 7,983 30% 36 h 9.0 h 92k
Jul 16, 2024 Heat 3,658 14% 2.2 d 2.1 d 65k
Mar 2, 2017 Windstorm 5,978 22% 36 h 31 h 65k
Apr 26, 2020 Winter storm 3,738 14% 23 h 8.5 h 58k
Feb 7, 2017 Ice storm 4,344 16% 25 h 18 h 49k
Feb 7, 2020 Winter storm 4,063 15% 29 h 20 h 41k
Apr 4, 2018 Windstorm 1,678 6% 41 h 42 h 35k
Jul 27, 2022 No storm report 3,979 15% 13 h 12 h 33k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +12h 90% by +32h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Fulton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 30%
  • Windstorm 26%
  • No storm on record 19%
  • Thunderstorms 14%
  • Ice storm 4.9%
  • Heat 4.2%
  • Tropical storm 1.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fulton

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole New York territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. Investor Owned 242 140 1.39 19.9 1.5M

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across New York

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 26,643 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →