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2020 Essex County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Essex County, NY went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 209K customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 62 New York counties and 871st 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 Essex 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 | February 7, 2020 13:00 | February 11, 2020 00:30 | 3d 11h | 2,906 | 97K |
| 2 | February 7, 2020 00:15 | February 7, 2020 02:00 | 1h 45m | 2,589 | 3,884 |
| 3 | November 1, 2020 07:45 | November 1, 2020 14:00 | 6h 15m | 2,351 | 4,206 |
| 4 | April 16, 2020 16:00 | April 16, 2020 23:00 | 7h | 2,212 | 5,535 |
| 5 | January 14, 2020 11:45 | January 14, 2020 12:00 | 15m | 2,183 | 546 |
| 6 | June 11, 2020 11:30 | June 11, 2020 16:30 | 5h | 1,625 | 414 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 20:45 | November 17, 2020 00:30 | 1d 3h | 1,578 | 2,376 |
| 8 | March 13, 2020 15:00 | March 15, 2020 02:15 | 1d 11h | 1,462 | 13K |
| 9 | March 24, 2020 05:00 | March 24, 2020 06:15 | 1h 15m | 1,401 | 1,751 |
| 10 | June 27, 2020 21:30 | June 28, 2020 05:45 | 8h 15m | 1,329 | 679 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 78 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 99% of New York's customers in 2020; 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, 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/essex-county