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2019 Putnam County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Putnam County, NY went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 286K customer-hours (New York average 3.0 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 62 New York counties and 918th 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 Putnam 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 18:00 | November 3, 2019 12:15 | 2d 18h | 5,091 | 63K |
| 2 | November 15, 2019 20:00 | November 15, 2019 22:00 | 2h | 4,696 | 6,246 |
| 3 | March 14, 2019 17:00 | March 14, 2019 23:30 | 6h 30m | 3,191 | 1,689 |
| 4 | June 16, 2019 21:00 | June 17, 2019 02:15 | 5h 15m | 2,777 | 6,259 |
| 5 | October 17, 2019 01:30 | October 19, 2019 02:30 | 2d 1h | 2,555 | 28K |
| 6 | June 11, 2019 02:45 | June 11, 2019 10:15 | 7h 30m | 2,480 | 8,493 |
| 7 | November 28, 2019 13:30 | November 29, 2019 06:30 | 17h | 2,407 | 3,309 |
| 8 | November 12, 2019 02:30 | November 12, 2019 03:15 | 45m | 2,097 | 1,573 |
| 9 | August 25, 2019 03:45 | August 25, 2019 15:00 | 11h 15m | 1,869 | 14K |
| 10 | July 27, 2019 09:15 | July 27, 2019 14:30 | 5h 15m | 1,702 | 5,099 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 135 reached 100+ customers, 36 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 Putnam 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 |
| 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 ÷ 47,493 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county