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2020 Queens County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Queens County, NY went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 4.6M customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 62 New York counties and 1329th 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 Queens 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 | July 19, 2020 13:45 | August 27, 2020 08:15 | 38d 18h | 52,750 | 4.2M |
| 2 | July 1, 2020 10:45 | July 2, 2020 09:15 | 22h 30m | 6,313 | 13K |
| 3 | November 11, 2020 14:00 | November 12, 2020 09:30 | 19h 30m | 2,652 | 2,303 |
| 4 | July 8, 2020 12:45 | July 15, 2020 08:00 | 6d 19h | 2,106 | 27K |
| 5 | April 13, 2020 11:15 | April 15, 2020 06:30 | 1d 19h | 1,997 | 12K |
| 6 | September 29, 2020 12:15 | October 5, 2020 05:45 | 5d 17h | 1,877 | 7,956 |
| 7 | February 22, 2020 14:45 | February 24, 2020 07:45 | 1d 17h | 1,676 | 4,497 |
| 8 | December 16, 2020 14:45 | December 31, 2020 00:15 | 14d 9h | 1,664 | 124K |
| 9 | June 28, 2020 04:30 | July 1, 2020 06:15 | 3d 1h | 1,655 | 3,383 |
| 10 | November 30, 2020 11:15 | December 1, 2020 12:15 | 1d 1h | 1,560 | 8,854 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 115 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Queens 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Long Island Power Authority | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Shore Towers Apts 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 ÷ 847,158 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. Queens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Queens 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/queens-county