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2017 Essex County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Essex County, NY went without power for an average of 8.8 hours, a total of 205K customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 62 New York counties and 610th 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 Essex 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 | June 10, 2017 10:15 | June 10, 2017 15:00 | 4h 45m | 7,047 | 14K |
| 2 | June 6, 2017 20:45 | June 7, 2017 05:00 | 8h 15m | 7,023 | 46K |
| 3 | December 27, 2017 14:15 | December 27, 2017 19:45 | 5h 30m | 3,357 | 5,890 |
| 4 | March 2, 2017 06:00 | March 3, 2017 20:15 | 1d 14h | 2,521 | 6,914 |
| 5 | February 25, 2017 19:30 | February 27, 2017 07:15 | 1d 11h | 2,305 | 20K |
| 6 | October 30, 2017 05:15 | October 31, 2017 22:00 | 1d 16h | 1,923 | 15K |
| 7 | May 18, 2017 20:00 | May 20, 2017 23:15 | 2d 3h | 1,745 | 7,281 |
| 8 | April 1, 2017 04:30 | April 1, 2017 18:15 | 13h 45m | 1,476 | 5,188 |
| 9 | August 18, 2017 09:45 | August 18, 2017 11:15 | 1h 30m | 1,271 | 1,591 |
| 10 | June 11, 2017 00:30 | June 12, 2017 10:30 | 1d 10h | 965 | 4,173 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 64 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/essex-county