Village of Freeport, NY
How often Village of Freeport goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Village of Freeport's New York customers went without power for only 12 minutes across 0.2 separate outages last year. That is 89% less outage time than the New York state average of 1.9 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Village of Freeport looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 55 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Most Village of Freeport customers keep power almost all year. Serving 14,613 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Village of Freeport's record was measured
Village of Freeport filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire New York territory, serving 14,613 customers here, not a single street or outage. See New York as a whole, across every utility that filed: New York's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.