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2020 Seneca County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Seneca County, NY went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 62 New York counties and 2021st 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 Seneca 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 | May 2, 2020 18:30 | May 3, 2020 01:45 | 7h 15m | 2,461 | 4,775 |
| 2 | May 15, 2020 20:45 | May 16, 2020 07:00 | 10h 15m | 2,071 | 3,997 |
| 3 | March 8, 2020 11:45 | March 8, 2020 13:45 | 2h | 1,823 | 3,646 |
| 4 | October 31, 2020 09:15 | October 31, 2020 13:15 | 4h | 1,625 | 3,370 |
| 5 | June 3, 2020 05:45 | June 3, 2020 14:45 | 9h | 1,468 | 413 |
| 6 | February 16, 2020 14:45 | February 16, 2020 17:00 | 2h 15m | 1,443 | 3,245 |
| 7 | March 29, 2020 19:15 | March 29, 2020 19:30 | 15m | 1,150 | 288 |
| 8 | June 15, 2020 21:00 | June 16, 2020 03:15 | 6h 15m | 669 | 2,847 |
| 9 | April 27, 2020 17:30 | April 27, 2020 17:45 | 15m | 634 | 159 |
| 10 | December 24, 2020 14:15 | December 24, 2020 15:15 | 1h | 575 | 575 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 46 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Seneca 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 |
| 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 ÷ 17,541 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. Seneca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Seneca 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/seneca-county