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2020 Saratoga County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Saratoga County, NY went without power for an average of 21.4 hours, a total of 2.5M customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 62 New York counties and 400th 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 Saratoga 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 | February 7, 2020 13:30 | February 11, 2020 08:45 | 3d 19h | 48,632 | 929K |
| 2 | May 15, 2020 18:45 | May 18, 2020 19:45 | 3d 1h | 32,746 | 482K |
| 3 | August 4, 2020 16:30 | August 6, 2020 01:30 | 1d 9h | 19,003 | 83K |
| 4 | October 7, 2020 13:15 | October 11, 2020 18:00 | 4d 4h | 18,982 | 562K |
| 5 | May 29, 2020 17:30 | May 31, 2020 08:45 | 1d 15h | 13,329 | 85K |
| 6 | July 2, 2020 11:45 | July 7, 2020 06:45 | 4d 19h | 12,013 | 29K |
| 7 | May 26, 2020 10:30 | May 27, 2020 06:15 | 19h 45m | 7,918 | 18K |
| 8 | November 2, 2020 10:15 | November 3, 2020 00:15 | 14h | 5,351 | 11K |
| 9 | January 12, 2020 15:00 | January 13, 2020 09:30 | 18h 30m | 4,302 | 13K |
| 10 | January 6, 2020 05:00 | January 6, 2020 20:30 | 15h 30m | 4,086 | 5,798 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 152 reached 100+ customers, 52 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 Saratoga 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 |
| 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 ÷ 117,711 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. Saratoga County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saratoga 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/saratoga-county