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2015 Essex County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Essex County, NY went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 151K customer-hours (New York average 1.6 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 62 New York counties and 418th 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 Essex 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 | July 30, 2015 17:15 | July 31, 2015 02:30 | 9h 15m | 9,289 | 45K |
| 2 | August 26, 2015 13:15 | August 26, 2015 14:00 | 45m | 3,205 | 827 |
| 3 | May 12, 2015 11:30 | May 14, 2015 00:00 | 1d 12h | 2,575 | 12K |
| 4 | October 28, 2015 19:00 | October 30, 2015 03:45 | 1d 8h | 2,465 | 24K |
| 5 | April 13, 2015 20:00 | April 13, 2015 23:30 | 3h 30m | 1,259 | 2,873 |
| 6 | July 21, 2015 16:45 | July 22, 2015 01:45 | 9h | 1,199 | 3,434 |
| 7 | July 16, 2015 10:45 | July 16, 2015 14:00 | 3h 15m | 1,042 | 1,566 |
| 8 | April 15, 2015 19:45 | April 16, 2015 01:00 | 5h 15m | 1,026 | 2,791 |
| 9 | May 11, 2015 00:15 | May 11, 2015 08:15 | 8h | 1,007 | 3,202 |
| 10 | May 31, 2015 12:30 | May 31, 2015 20:15 | 7h 45m | 919 | 3,451 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 69 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Essex 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lake Placid Village, Inc - (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 ÷ 23,389 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county