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2018 Putnam County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Putnam County, NY went without power for an average of 97.8 hours, a total of 4.6M customer-hours (New York average 7.4 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 60 New York counties and 53rd 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 Putnam 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 | 35,668 | 8,917 |
| 2 | May 15, 2018 20:15 | May 22, 2018 09:00 | 6d 12h | 33,341 | 1.7M |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 09:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 15h | 26,599 | 1.8M |
| 4 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 12, 2018 16:45 | 6d 13h | 19,790 | 859K |
| 5 | May 26, 2018 13:15 | May 27, 2018 01:30 | 12h 15m | 5,320 | 7,710 |
| 6 | July 12, 2018 11:30 | July 12, 2018 18:30 | 7h | 5,019 | 9,247 |
| 7 | January 4, 2018 13:45 | January 5, 2018 06:00 | 16h 15m | 3,753 | 11K |
| 8 | June 24, 2018 18:30 | June 25, 2018 06:45 | 12h 15m | 3,712 | 1,284 |
| 9 | July 22, 2018 16:15 | July 22, 2018 22:15 | 6h | 3,284 | 5,870 |
| 10 | June 18, 2018 16:15 | June 19, 2018 22:30 | 1d 6h | 2,799 | 6,309 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 125 reached 100+ customers, 43 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 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 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/putnam-county