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2019 Essex County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Essex County, NY went without power for an average of 13.5 hours, a total of 315K customer-hours (New York average 3.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 62 New York counties and 394th 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 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 31, 2019 23:45 | November 5, 2019 11:30 | 4d 11h | 9,373 | 214K |
| 2 | October 17, 2019 09:30 | October 18, 2019 20:00 | 1d 10h | 3,120 | 13K |
| 3 | January 17, 2019 18:00 | January 17, 2019 22:45 | 4h 45m | 2,370 | 1,705 |
| 4 | December 10, 2019 20:00 | December 10, 2019 22:45 | 2h 45m | 2,307 | 580 |
| 5 | December 30, 2019 10:15 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 14h | 1,902 | 10K |
| 6 | February 8, 2019 18:15 | February 10, 2019 12:15 | 1d 18h | 1,283 | 10K |
| 7 | December 9, 2019 21:00 | December 10, 2019 09:45 | 12h 45m | 1,123 | 1,345 |
| 8 | November 22, 2019 00:45 | November 22, 2019 01:15 | 30m | 1,028 | 258 |
| 9 | March 11, 2019 17:15 | March 11, 2019 19:30 | 2h 15m | 983 | 992 |
| 10 | April 3, 2019 17:45 | April 5, 2019 00:00 | 1d 6h | 976 | 4,424 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 67 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lake Placid Village, Inc - (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 ÷ 23,389 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, 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/essex-county