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2020 Richmond County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Richmond County, NY went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 62 New York counties and 838th 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 Richmond 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 15:00 | August 12, 2020 02:30 | 7d 11h | 37,990 | 1.4M |
| 2 | December 25, 2020 02:30 | December 26, 2020 04:15 | 1d 1h | 4,792 | 26K |
| 3 | January 5, 2020 16:30 | January 5, 2020 20:15 | 3h 45m | 4,768 | 5,328 |
| 4 | January 28, 2020 21:30 | January 29, 2020 03:00 | 5h 30m | 3,408 | 5,283 |
| 5 | July 10, 2020 17:00 | July 11, 2020 05:30 | 12h 30m | 3,320 | 6,068 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 12:00 | April 14, 2020 04:15 | 16h 15m | 2,251 | 2,559 |
| 7 | March 23, 2020 11:45 | March 23, 2020 17:15 | 5h 30m | 2,182 | 2,685 |
| 8 | April 3, 2020 13:30 | April 3, 2020 18:30 | 5h | 2,085 | 1,763 |
| 9 | October 2, 2020 07:00 | October 2, 2020 15:45 | 8h 45m | 1,932 | 2,704 |
| 10 | November 15, 2020 23:30 | November 16, 2020 08:45 | 9h 15m | 1,915 | 3,967 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 91 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Richmond 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 ÷ 166,680 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county