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2017 Washington County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Washington County, NY went without power for an average of 18.4 hours, a total of 535K customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 62 New York counties and 304th 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 Washington 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 18, 2017 15:00 | May 21, 2017 17:00 | 3d 2h | 13,786 | 257K |
| 2 | March 7, 2017 18:45 | March 8, 2017 07:15 | 12h 30m | 4,248 | 6,280 |
| 3 | June 19, 2017 13:45 | June 20, 2017 20:45 | 1d 7h | 4,163 | 19K |
| 4 | October 30, 2017 01:15 | November 2, 2017 10:30 | 3d 9h | 4,100 | 64K |
| 5 | May 5, 2017 16:00 | May 8, 2017 00:15 | 2d 8h | 3,575 | 47K |
| 6 | March 8, 2017 19:30 | March 9, 2017 11:45 | 16h 15m | 2,964 | 6,330 |
| 7 | September 7, 2017 13:15 | September 8, 2017 09:00 | 19h 45m | 2,758 | 5,464 |
| 8 | June 27, 2017 10:30 | June 28, 2017 16:00 | 1d 5h | 2,508 | 11K |
| 9 | November 16, 2017 10:30 | November 16, 2017 18:15 | 7h 45m | 2,103 | 2,720 |
| 10 | July 1, 2017 13:00 | July 3, 2017 10:00 | 1d 21h | 1,666 | 6,517 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 77 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Washington 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 29,152 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county