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2017 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 62 New York counties and 1062nd 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 Erie 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 | March 8, 2017 13:30 | March 12, 2017 06:00 | 3d 16h | 38,779 | 1.1M |
| 2 | January 10, 2017 17:15 | January 13, 2017 07:15 | 2d 14h | 24,094 | 171K |
| 3 | July 20, 2017 10:30 | July 22, 2017 13:15 | 2d 2h | 21,892 | 129K |
| 4 | June 11, 2017 13:45 | June 12, 2017 04:00 | 14h 15m | 15,123 | 19K |
| 5 | August 4, 2017 16:00 | August 6, 2017 02:15 | 1d 10h | 13,120 | 35K |
| 6 | October 15, 2017 12:45 | October 17, 2017 07:45 | 1d 19h | 11,313 | 53K |
| 7 | September 4, 2017 17:30 | September 7, 2017 02:30 | 2d 9h | 10,874 | 66K |
| 8 | November 26, 2017 11:15 | November 26, 2017 12:30 | 1h 15m | 8,852 | 11K |
| 9 | March 1, 2017 20:15 | March 4, 2017 04:00 | 2d 7h | 4,982 | 44K |
| 10 | September 27, 2017 19:00 | September 28, 2017 04:00 | 9h | 4,463 | 4,132 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 244 reached 100+ customers, 73 reached 1,000+ customers, 7 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 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/erie-county