County annual report · FIPS 36061
2020 New York County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in New York County, NY went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 62 New York counties and 2925th 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 New York 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 | August 4, 2020 15:45 | August 11, 2020 21:00 | 7d 5h | 137,473 | 75K |
| 2 | May 11, 2020 07:15 | May 11, 2020 19:45 | 12h 30m | 612 | 3,602 |
| 3 | June 23, 2020 22:30 | June 24, 2020 13:30 | 15h | 532 | 4,196 |
| 4 | February 5, 2020 08:00 | February 5, 2020 12:00 | 4h | 528 | 2,109 |
| 5 | August 12, 2020 22:15 | August 13, 2020 18:00 | 19h 45m | 478 | 7,135 |
| 6 | December 17, 2020 13:15 | December 24, 2020 10:30 | 6d 21h | 324 | 14K |
| 7 | December 27, 2020 06:15 | December 27, 2020 12:30 | 6h 15m | 262 | 1,587 |
| 8 | April 28, 2020 21:15 | April 29, 2020 03:15 | 6h | 247 | 579 |
| 9 | June 29, 2020 18:45 | June 30, 2020 02:30 | 7h 45m | 224 | 833 |
| 10 | July 7, 2020 23:00 | July 8, 2020 05:45 | 6h 45m | 191 | 909 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 26 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 New York 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidated Edison Co-NY Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 873,185 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. New York County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), New York 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/new-york/new-york-county