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2017 Putnam County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Putnam County, NY went without power for an average of 13.3 hours, a total of 633K customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 62 New York counties and 409th 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 Putnam 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 | December 25, 2017 14:30 | December 26, 2017 04:15 | 13h 45m | 13,923 | 45K |
| 2 | October 29, 2017 22:45 | November 1, 2017 19:15 | 2d 20h | 13,853 | 233K |
| 3 | June 19, 2017 17:00 | June 20, 2017 02:15 | 9h 15m | 5,781 | 6,344 |
| 4 | June 30, 2017 19:30 | July 2, 2017 23:45 | 2d 4h | 5,156 | 36K |
| 5 | July 8, 2017 21:30 | July 9, 2017 15:15 | 17h 45m | 4,787 | 47K |
| 6 | February 13, 2017 13:45 | February 14, 2017 23:30 | 1d 9h | 3,568 | 19K |
| 7 | March 2, 2017 06:00 | March 3, 2017 18:30 | 1d 12h | 3,159 | 14K |
| 8 | June 13, 2017 19:30 | June 14, 2017 14:30 | 19h | 3,131 | 3,680 |
| 9 | November 19, 2017 12:30 | November 21, 2017 00:45 | 1d 12h | 3,127 | 14K |
| 10 | June 20, 2017 16:30 | June 20, 2017 20:00 | 3h 30m | 3,079 | 5,527 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 139 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 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 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/putnam-county