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2020 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 62 New York counties and 1819th 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 Erie 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 | January 12, 2020 08:15 | January 14, 2020 08:30 | 2d | 52,605 | 296K |
| 2 | November 15, 2020 10:45 | November 19, 2020 02:15 | 3d 15h | 29,559 | 442K |
| 3 | August 2, 2020 10:00 | August 7, 2020 04:45 | 4d 18h | 21,124 | 46K |
| 4 | July 9, 2020 10:15 | July 12, 2020 15:30 | 3d 5h | 11,684 | 200K |
| 5 | July 6, 2020 12:15 | July 8, 2020 08:30 | 1d 20h | 8,864 | 64K |
| 6 | August 26, 2020 19:45 | August 27, 2020 14:15 | 18h 30m | 8,680 | 13K |
| 7 | June 2, 2020 21:30 | June 5, 2020 05:00 | 2d 7h | 7,814 | 62K |
| 8 | June 10, 2020 12:30 | June 12, 2020 03:30 | 1d 15h | 7,108 | 38K |
| 9 | May 12, 2020 15:45 | May 12, 2020 22:45 | 7h | 6,687 | 6,222 |
| 10 | August 27, 2020 15:30 | August 28, 2020 07:00 | 15h 30m | 6,084 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 252 reached 100+ customers, 76 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 99% of New York's customers in 2020; 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, 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/erie-county