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2016 Putnam County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Putnam County, NY went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 557K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 62 New York counties and 293rd 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 Putnam 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 | May 27, 2016 01:45 | May 28, 2016 05:15 | 1d 3h | 37,978 | 73K |
| 2 | June 5, 2016 23:15 | June 6, 2016 02:45 | 3h 30m | 12,179 | 14K |
| 3 | February 25, 2016 00:15 | February 27, 2016 09:15 | 2d 9h | 9,726 | 147K |
| 4 | November 11, 2016 18:15 | November 11, 2016 19:30 | 1h 15m | 8,837 | 7,522 |
| 5 | July 18, 2016 19:45 | July 20, 2016 05:15 | 1d 9h | 8,629 | 54K |
| 6 | April 7, 2016 13:45 | April 7, 2016 17:00 | 3h 15m | 6,161 | 7,811 |
| 7 | June 8, 2016 21:30 | June 9, 2016 08:00 | 10h 30m | 3,333 | 11K |
| 8 | March 28, 2016 23:45 | March 30, 2016 01:00 | 1d 1h | 2,874 | 14K |
| 9 | July 7, 2016 18:30 | July 8, 2016 11:15 | 16h 45m | 2,669 | 8,254 |
| 10 | October 23, 2016 17:30 | October 24, 2016 14:00 | 20h 30m | 2,633 | 6,063 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 126 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Putnam 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 |
| 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 ÷ 47,493 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county