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2019 Columbia County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Columbia County, NY went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 281K customer-hours (New York average 3.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 62 New York counties and 600th 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 Columbia 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 | August 8, 2019 21:45 | August 10, 2019 05:30 | 1d 7h | 5,633 | 44K |
| 2 | October 31, 2019 18:30 | November 4, 2019 00:15 | 3d 5h | 4,228 | 80K |
| 3 | August 21, 2019 21:45 | August 22, 2019 21:15 | 23h 30m | 3,847 | 10K |
| 4 | June 11, 2019 03:45 | June 12, 2019 04:45 | 1d 1h | 2,630 | 14K |
| 5 | October 31, 2019 07:30 | October 31, 2019 14:00 | 6h 30m | 2,297 | 7,214 |
| 6 | February 25, 2019 09:30 | February 27, 2019 01:15 | 1d 15h | 2,158 | 11K |
| 7 | May 21, 2019 17:15 | May 22, 2019 15:30 | 22h 15m | 2,044 | 1,389 |
| 8 | October 6, 2019 17:15 | October 6, 2019 23:15 | 6h | 1,903 | 5,609 |
| 9 | November 8, 2019 00:00 | November 8, 2019 22:00 | 22h | 1,797 | 14K |
| 10 | May 28, 2019 14:45 | May 29, 2019 00:00 | 9h 15m | 1,737 | 1,161 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 64 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 Columbia 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 |
| 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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 30,817 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county