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2017 Herkimer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Herkimer County, NY went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 214K customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 62 New York counties and 689th 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 Herkimer 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 | January 24, 2017 11:00 | January 26, 2017 06:45 | 1d 19h | 3,906 | 35K |
| 2 | May 11, 2017 15:30 | May 11, 2017 18:30 | 3h | 3,793 | 1,003 |
| 3 | November 10, 2017 05:15 | November 10, 2017 13:00 | 7h 45m | 3,790 | 21K |
| 4 | January 26, 2017 17:15 | January 27, 2017 01:30 | 8h 15m | 3,777 | 16K |
| 5 | June 28, 2017 22:30 | June 29, 2017 01:15 | 2h 45m | 3,758 | 1,850 |
| 6 | October 28, 2017 12:15 | October 28, 2017 12:45 | 30m | 3,744 | 1,872 |
| 7 | May 7, 2017 22:45 | May 8, 2017 00:00 | 1h 15m | 3,699 | 3,700 |
| 8 | July 8, 2017 09:45 | July 9, 2017 00:00 | 14h 15m | 3,686 | 9,849 |
| 9 | November 19, 2017 11:15 | November 20, 2017 08:30 | 21h 15m | 3,331 | 7,432 |
| 10 | March 2, 2017 04:15 | March 4, 2017 00:00 | 1d 19h | 3,234 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 58 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Herkimer 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otsego Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mohawk Municipal Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Frankfort - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Ilion - (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 ÷ 27,865 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. Herkimer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Herkimer 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/herkimer-county