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2020 Washington County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washington County, NY went without power for an average of 16.9 hours, a total of 494K customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 62 New York counties and 501st 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 Washington 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 14:30 | February 11, 2020 00:15 | 3d 9h | 7,942 | 163K |
| 2 | May 15, 2020 22:15 | May 18, 2020 14:15 | 2d 16h | 6,495 | 117K |
| 3 | February 27, 2020 07:30 | February 28, 2020 02:45 | 19h 15m | 3,925 | 15K |
| 4 | December 24, 2020 21:30 | December 26, 2020 22:30 | 2d 1h | 3,812 | 8,176 |
| 5 | July 23, 2020 13:15 | July 23, 2020 23:30 | 10h 15m | 3,742 | 3,023 |
| 6 | August 21, 2020 20:15 | August 23, 2020 08:45 | 1d 12h | 3,735 | 8,310 |
| 7 | May 29, 2020 19:30 | May 31, 2020 04:15 | 1d 8h | 3,728 | 24K |
| 8 | August 10, 2020 19:45 | August 12, 2020 04:30 | 1d 8h | 3,268 | 11K |
| 9 | October 6, 2020 07:00 | October 6, 2020 20:15 | 13h 15m | 2,506 | 4,108 |
| 10 | June 30, 2020 20:45 | July 1, 2020 01:15 | 4h 30m | 2,321 | 4,138 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 86 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Washington 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 ÷ 29,152 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county