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2015 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 914K customer-hours (New York average 1.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 62 New York counties and 1346th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Erie County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 15, 2015 04:15 | August 16, 2015 06:00 | 1d 1h | 13,674 | 63K |
| 2 | June 22, 2015 22:45 | June 29, 2015 09:00 | 6d 10h | 10,914 | 28K |
| 3 | September 9, 2015 09:15 | September 10, 2015 06:00 | 20h 45m | 10,130 | 11K |
| 4 | May 31, 2015 07:00 | June 1, 2015 09:45 | 1d 2h | 8,579 | 27K |
| 5 | October 28, 2015 11:45 | October 30, 2015 16:30 | 2d 4h | 8,303 | 51K |
| 6 | July 7, 2015 17:00 | July 8, 2015 08:30 | 15h 30m | 8,068 | 34K |
| 7 | March 4, 2015 11:00 | March 5, 2015 04:15 | 17h 15m | 7,095 | 17K |
| 8 | February 20, 2015 12:30 | February 20, 2015 17:30 | 5h | 7,042 | 18K |
| 9 | July 29, 2015 10:45 | July 30, 2015 07:45 | 21h | 6,544 | 25K |
| 10 | November 16, 2015 21:30 | November 17, 2015 02:00 | 4h 30m | 5,551 | 7,976 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 221 reached 100+ customers, 75 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Erie County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.29 | 2.5 hrs | 1.26 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.07 | 2.1 hrs | 1.02 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Arcade - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Akron - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Springville - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of New York's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 521,085 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie County, NY annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/new-york/erie-county