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2018 Columbia County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Columbia County, NY went without power for an average of 25.9 hours, a total of 798K customer-hours (New York average 7.4 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 60 New York counties and 215th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 10, 2018 20:00 | July 10, 2018 20:15 | 15m | 15,013 | 3,753 |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 08:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 17h | 13,447 | 481K |
| 3 | July 15, 2018 18:00 | July 16, 2018 00:15 | 6h 15m | 6,240 | 14K |
| 4 | September 6, 2018 18:00 | September 8, 2018 03:15 | 1d 9h | 5,134 | 19K |
| 5 | December 6, 2018 12:30 | December 6, 2018 20:30 | 8h | 4,742 | 9,509 |
| 6 | August 7, 2018 18:30 | August 8, 2018 10:00 | 15h 30m | 4,178 | 15K |
| 7 | April 16, 2018 05:30 | April 18, 2018 21:45 | 2d 16h | 3,512 | 68K |
| 8 | October 23, 2018 23:00 | October 24, 2018 02:15 | 3h 15m | 3,408 | 2,879 |
| 9 | July 27, 2018 20:30 | July 28, 2018 23:30 | 1d 3h | 2,767 | 21K |
| 10 | November 3, 2018 02:45 | November 4, 2018 01:15 | 22h 30m | 2,462 | 8,949 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 88 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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. | 2018 | 6.6 hrs | 1.53 | 2.5 hrs | 1.06 |
| 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 98% of New York's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 30,817 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, NY annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/new-york/columbia-county