County annual report · FIPS 36009
2019 Cattaraugus County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cattaraugus County, NY went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (New York average 3.0 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 62 New York counties and 995th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cattaraugus 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 | April 14, 2019 21:00 | April 16, 2019 08:30 | 1d 11h | 5,884 | 43K |
| 2 | October 19, 2019 18:30 | October 20, 2019 01:30 | 7h | 1,542 | 2,780 |
| 3 | January 9, 2019 05:45 | January 9, 2019 16:15 | 10h 30m | 1,536 | 6,010 |
| 4 | January 3, 2019 16:45 | January 3, 2019 17:30 | 45m | 1,534 | 767 |
| 5 | May 2, 2019 14:45 | May 2, 2019 15:00 | 15m | 1,494 | 374 |
| 6 | March 2, 2019 06:15 | March 2, 2019 11:30 | 5h 15m | 1,423 | 5,120 |
| 7 | June 11, 2019 14:30 | June 11, 2019 19:15 | 4h 45m | 1,305 | 2,813 |
| 8 | October 24, 2019 15:30 | October 24, 2019 22:00 | 6h 30m | 1,256 | 1,442 |
| 9 | April 16, 2019 21:30 | April 17, 2019 00:15 | 2h 45m | 1,230 | 3,052 |
| 10 | January 1, 2019 03:45 | January 2, 2019 08:30 | 1d 4h | 1,225 | 6,972 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 49 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Cattaraugus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Steuben Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 40.0 hrs | 3.78 | 5.3 hrs | 2.25 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Arcade - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Salamanca - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Little Valley - (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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,980 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. Cattaraugus County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cattaraugus County, NY 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/new-york/cattaraugus-county