County annual report · FIPS 36021
2016 Columbia County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Columbia County, NY went without power for an average of 10.7 hours, a total of 330K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 62 New York counties and 325th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 20, 2016 10:15 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 1d 2h | 8,266 | 104K |
| 2 | August 14, 2016 00:15 | August 16, 2016 03:00 | 2d 2h | 3,398 | 56K |
| 3 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | November 23, 2016 20:45 | 2d 6h | 2,981 | 59K |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 10:15 | April 4, 2016 16:30 | 1d 6h | 2,886 | 7,086 |
| 5 | July 2, 2016 04:00 | July 3, 2016 04:30 | 1d | 2,369 | 18K |
| 6 | May 27, 2016 22:45 | May 28, 2016 18:15 | 19h 30m | 2,215 | 4,951 |
| 7 | January 10, 2016 12:45 | January 11, 2016 17:30 | 1d 4h | 1,756 | 9,291 |
| 8 | April 21, 2016 20:15 | April 21, 2016 22:00 | 1h 45m | 1,432 | 2,506 |
| 9 | March 2, 2016 18:15 | March 3, 2016 03:30 | 9h 15m | 1,307 | 1,809 |
| 10 | February 25, 2016 19:30 | February 26, 2016 04:45 | 9h 15m | 1,106 | 4,231 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 78 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 1.56 | 3.6 hrs | 1.47 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.19 | 2.2 hrs | 1.04 |
| Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 30,817 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, NY annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/new-york/columbia-county