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2017 Columbia County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Columbia County, NY went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 296K customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 62 New York counties and 551st of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2017
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 5, 2017 18:45 | May 8, 2017 07:45 | 2d 13h | 7,023 | 99K |
| 2 | October 29, 2017 21:45 | November 1, 2017 04:15 | 2d 6h | 2,342 | 40K |
| 3 | December 26, 2017 14:15 | December 26, 2017 21:00 | 6h 45m | 2,322 | 3,502 |
| 4 | May 18, 2017 18:45 | May 20, 2017 00:00 | 1d 5h | 2,315 | 6,262 |
| 5 | February 24, 2017 10:45 | February 24, 2017 14:00 | 3h 15m | 2,279 | 5,115 |
| 6 | October 28, 2017 12:45 | October 28, 2017 13:15 | 30m | 2,018 | 506 |
| 7 | December 24, 2017 18:15 | December 25, 2017 03:30 | 9h 15m | 1,904 | 13K |
| 8 | November 15, 2017 13:15 | November 15, 2017 16:45 | 3h 30m | 1,741 | 2,265 |
| 9 | June 19, 2017 16:30 | June 20, 2017 16:45 | 1d | 1,732 | 5,110 |
| 10 | January 11, 2017 04:45 | January 11, 2017 22:45 | 18h | 1,689 | 5,584 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 78 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 2017, 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. | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.41 | 2.2 hrs | 1.03 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/new-york/columbia-county