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2019 Essex County, MA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Essex County, MA went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Massachusetts average 3.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 14 Massachusetts counties and 695th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Massachusetts customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Essex County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 17, 2019 02:45 | October 21, 2019 00:45 | 3d 22h | 54,383 | 1.2M |
| 2 | August 21, 2019 14:00 | August 22, 2019 08:15 | 18h 15m | 11,367 | 30K |
| 3 | July 6, 2019 09:15 | July 7, 2019 20:00 | 1d 10h | 8,225 | 7,772 |
| 4 | January 15, 2019 15:00 | January 15, 2019 17:45 | 2h 45m | 6,290 | 1,584 |
| 5 | April 3, 2019 22:30 | April 5, 2019 07:45 | 1d 9h | 6,040 | 20K |
| 6 | May 18, 2019 09:45 | May 18, 2019 23:30 | 13h 45m | 5,239 | 2,532 |
| 7 | February 7, 2019 15:45 | February 8, 2019 08:00 | 16h 15m | 5,151 | 7,755 |
| 8 | February 25, 2019 10:15 | February 26, 2019 23:45 | 1d 13h | 4,958 | 33K |
| 9 | March 4, 2019 09:15 | March 5, 2019 01:00 | 15h 45m | 4,929 | 25K |
| 10 | November 4, 2019 13:30 | November 5, 2019 03:15 | 13h 45m | 3,917 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 197 reached 100+ customers, 69 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 Essex County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Electric Co | 2014 | 2.4 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Town of Reading - (MA) | 2018 | 66 min | 0.53 | 19 min | 0.36 |
| City of Marblehead - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Peabody - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Danvers | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Georgetown - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Groveland - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Ipswich - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Merrimac - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Middleton - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Rowley - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 89% of Massachusetts's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 216,314 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, MA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/massachusetts/essex-county