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2020 Cayuga County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cayuga County, NY went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 164K customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 62 New York counties and 1596th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cayuga County, 2020
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 7, 2020 15:15 | October 9, 2020 00:15 | 1d 9h | 8,072 | 45K |
| 2 | September 30, 2020 20:45 | October 1, 2020 04:30 | 7h 45m | 6,017 | 2,388 |
| 3 | May 26, 2020 17:15 | May 26, 2020 20:30 | 3h 15m | 5,926 | 8,696 |
| 4 | March 29, 2020 15:15 | March 29, 2020 16:30 | 1h 15m | 5,103 | 5,103 |
| 5 | March 29, 2020 17:30 | March 29, 2020 18:15 | 45m | 5,102 | 3,320 |
| 6 | September 18, 2020 16:30 | September 18, 2020 18:30 | 2h | 4,582 | 8,118 |
| 7 | March 27, 2020 05:00 | March 27, 2020 07:45 | 2h 45m | 4,436 | 6,655 |
| 8 | August 29, 2020 22:45 | August 30, 2020 19:15 | 20h 30m | 4,114 | 7,633 |
| 9 | July 28, 2020 19:30 | July 28, 2020 21:15 | 1h 45m | 1,660 | 1,499 |
| 10 | May 7, 2020 19:00 | May 8, 2020 05:00 | 10h | 1,604 | 4,974 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 82 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Cayuga County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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. | 2020 | 7.6 hrs | 1.50 | 2.4 hrs | 1.09 |
| 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 99% of New York's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,433 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. Cayuga County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cayuga County, NY annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/new-york/cayuga-county