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2019 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 2.8M customer-hours (New York average 3.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 62 New York counties and 1037th 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 Erie 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 31, 2019 20:00 | November 4, 2019 07:15 | 3d 11h | 52,555 | 807K |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 08:30 | February 27, 2019 06:45 | 2d 22h | 48,865 | 1.1M |
| 3 | March 9, 2019 23:30 | March 12, 2019 02:00 | 2d 2h | 16,013 | 104K |
| 4 | January 1, 2019 03:45 | January 2, 2019 10:15 | 1d 6h | 14,966 | 152K |
| 5 | May 21, 2019 09:45 | May 21, 2019 11:00 | 1h 15m | 12,765 | 6,534 |
| 6 | March 29, 2019 19:30 | March 30, 2019 03:00 | 7h 30m | 12,588 | 20K |
| 7 | January 20, 2019 23:30 | January 22, 2019 06:45 | 1d 7h | 5,924 | 36K |
| 8 | October 27, 2019 06:45 | October 28, 2019 08:45 | 1d 2h | 5,713 | 27K |
| 9 | January 22, 2019 12:45 | January 22, 2019 18:15 | 5h 30m | 5,625 | 5,647 |
| 10 | November 8, 2019 13:00 | November 8, 2019 22:15 | 9h 15m | 5,614 | 7,506 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 247 reached 100+ customers, 82 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 Erie 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 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Arcade - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Akron - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Springville - (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 ÷ 521,085 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county