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2021 Cayuga County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Cayuga County, NY went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (New York average 2.7 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 62 New York counties and 1636th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cayuga County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 28, 2021 14:45 | December 28, 2021 20:00 | 5h 15m | 5,843 | 7,724 |
| 2 | July 13, 2021 20:45 | July 15, 2021 02:00 | 1d 5h | 5,144 | 23K |
| 3 | September 23, 2021 21:15 | September 23, 2021 22:15 | 1h | 3,796 | 3,627 |
| 4 | September 5, 2021 02:30 | September 5, 2021 04:00 | 1h 30m | 3,790 | 5,685 |
| 5 | August 29, 2021 18:30 | August 30, 2021 02:30 | 8h | 3,244 | 3,996 |
| 6 | February 27, 2021 14:00 | February 27, 2021 22:00 | 8h | 2,689 | 7,237 |
| 7 | January 28, 2021 23:15 | January 29, 2021 01:15 | 2h | 2,682 | 3,223 |
| 8 | June 30, 2021 12:30 | July 1, 2021 00:15 | 11h 45m | 1,824 | 4,560 |
| 9 | December 12, 2021 00:30 | December 13, 2021 20:45 | 1d 20h | 1,572 | 23K |
| 10 | December 6, 2021 04:00 | December 7, 2021 05:15 | 1d 1h | 1,348 | 3,005 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 77 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Cayuga County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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. | 2021 | 3.7 hrs | 1.32 | 2.2 hrs | 1.12 |
| 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,433 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. Cayuga County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cayuga County, NY annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/new-york/cayuga-county