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2018 Essex County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Essex County, NY went without power for an average of 35.9 hours, a total of 839K customer-hours (New York average 7.4 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 60 New York counties and 165th 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 Essex 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 | May 4, 2018 22:15 | May 8, 2018 04:00 | 3d 5h | 14,418 | 509K |
| 2 | July 10, 2018 07:30 | July 11, 2018 03:15 | 19h 45m | 9,689 | 4,411 |
| 3 | November 27, 2018 09:45 | November 29, 2018 22:30 | 2d 12h | 8,364 | 39K |
| 4 | May 26, 2018 14:00 | May 27, 2018 02:15 | 12h 15m | 7,296 | 56K |
| 5 | June 14, 2018 02:30 | June 14, 2018 05:15 | 2h 45m | 7,130 | 4,589 |
| 6 | June 14, 2018 20:15 | June 14, 2018 21:15 | 1h | 7,129 | 7,129 |
| 7 | November 9, 2018 21:30 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 14h 15m | 3,656 | 35K |
| 8 | April 4, 2018 18:15 | April 7, 2018 15:45 | 2d 21h | 3,527 | 62K |
| 9 | March 13, 2018 18:15 | March 13, 2018 18:45 | 30m | 2,732 | 1,366 |
| 10 | September 21, 2018 17:45 | September 21, 2018 18:00 | 15m | 2,291 | 573 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 81 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Essex 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lake Placid Village, Inc - (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 ÷ 23,389 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county