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2018 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (New York average 7.4 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 60 New York counties and 1430th 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 Erie 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 9, 2018 20:45 | July 13, 2018 18:30 | 3d 21h | 147,874 | 43K |
| 2 | April 4, 2018 07:00 | April 8, 2018 03:15 | 3d 20h | 28,725 | 539K |
| 3 | May 4, 2018 10:30 | May 6, 2018 04:00 | 1d 17h | 26,202 | 180K |
| 4 | April 11, 2018 07:00 | April 11, 2018 18:00 | 11h | 17,852 | 43K |
| 5 | December 17, 2018 21:00 | December 18, 2018 05:00 | 8h | 15,123 | 16K |
| 6 | April 14, 2018 12:45 | April 15, 2018 21:30 | 1d 8h | 13,707 | 54K |
| 7 | November 18, 2018 08:30 | November 18, 2018 20:45 | 12h 15m | 12,764 | 33K |
| 8 | October 15, 2018 11:45 | October 17, 2018 05:15 | 1d 17h | 10,860 | 10K |
| 9 | January 23, 2018 13:30 | January 24, 2018 08:00 | 18h 30m | 10,769 | 29K |
| 10 | July 4, 2018 14:15 | July 7, 2018 09:15 | 2d 19h | 9,946 | 56K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 205 reached 100+ customers, 72 reached 1,000+ customers, 9 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 Erie 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 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Arcade - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Akron - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Springville - (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 98% of New York's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 521,085 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county