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2020 Hamilton County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hamilton County, NY went without power for an average of 88.1 hours, a total of 226K customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 62 New York counties and 76th 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 Hamilton 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 | March 20, 2020 19:30 | March 21, 2020 05:30 | 10h | 3,269 | 18K |
| 2 | April 29, 2020 16:15 | April 29, 2020 17:30 | 1h 15m | 2,955 | 1,708 |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 15:30 | February 11, 2020 11:45 | 3d 20h | 2,868 | 72K |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 22:15 | April 14, 2020 22:15 | 1d | 2,598 | 23K |
| 5 | July 13, 2020 18:30 | July 13, 2020 21:15 | 2h 45m | 1,616 | 2,921 |
| 6 | July 22, 2020 15:15 | July 22, 2020 16:30 | 1h 15m | 1,575 | 1,969 |
| 7 | June 15, 2020 19:00 | June 15, 2020 20:00 | 1h | 1,570 | 1,377 |
| 8 | November 25, 2020 06:00 | November 25, 2020 07:15 | 1h 15m | 1,347 | 1,470 |
| 9 | April 29, 2020 23:45 | April 30, 2020 08:00 | 8h 15m | 1,337 | 11K |
| 10 | January 5, 2020 06:30 | January 5, 2020 18:30 | 12h | 1,334 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 46 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Hamilton 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 |
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 ÷ 2,561 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. Hamilton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hamilton 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/hamilton-county