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2020 Putnam County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Putnam County, NY went without power for an average of 64.3 hours, a total of 3.1M customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 62 New York counties and 122nd 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 Putnam 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 04:00 | August 12, 2020 00:15 | 7d 20h | 37,964 | 2.3M |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 12:00 | April 15, 2020 23:30 | 2d 11h | 18,449 | 349K |
| 3 | December 25, 2020 00:15 | December 28, 2020 00:00 | 2d 23h | 8,969 | 135K |
| 4 | August 25, 2020 21:15 | August 26, 2020 07:45 | 10h 30m | 7,953 | 32K |
| 5 | September 29, 2020 21:15 | September 30, 2020 22:45 | 1d 1h | 6,760 | 27K |
| 6 | July 8, 2020 17:45 | July 9, 2020 06:00 | 12h 15m | 6,197 | 9,164 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 19:30 | November 17, 2020 11:45 | 1d 16h | 5,124 | 45K |
| 8 | November 2, 2020 12:45 | November 3, 2020 04:15 | 15h 30m | 4,879 | 11K |
| 9 | July 26, 2020 10:45 | July 26, 2020 14:30 | 3h 45m | 3,258 | 6,555 |
| 10 | February 7, 2020 20:15 | February 8, 2020 11:00 | 14h 45m | 3,227 | 6,374 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 115 reached 100+ customers, 31 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Putnam 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 |
| Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 |
| 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 ÷ 47,493 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county