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2021 Columbia County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Columbia County, NY went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 289K customer-hours (New York average 2.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 62 New York counties and 822nd 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 Columbia 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 | June 29, 2021 15:15 | July 2, 2021 10:30 | 2d 19h | 13,758 | 73K |
| 2 | April 24, 2021 11:30 | April 24, 2021 12:30 | 1h | 9,980 | 4,991 |
| 3 | March 7, 2021 23:30 | March 8, 2021 00:00 | 30m | 5,646 | 1,827 |
| 4 | August 11, 2021 23:15 | August 13, 2021 09:15 | 1d 10h | 5,228 | 17K |
| 5 | March 5, 2021 15:15 | March 5, 2021 15:45 | 30m | 4,312 | 2,156 |
| 6 | March 1, 2021 22:00 | March 3, 2021 02:45 | 1d 4h | 3,676 | 30K |
| 7 | July 27, 2021 21:45 | July 28, 2021 12:00 | 14h 15m | 2,374 | 2,031 |
| 8 | January 24, 2021 09:30 | January 24, 2021 20:00 | 10h 30m | 2,276 | 11K |
| 9 | March 24, 2021 22:45 | March 25, 2021 03:30 | 4h 45m | 2,163 | 4,860 |
| 10 | July 17, 2021 21:30 | July 18, 2021 11:15 | 13h 45m | 2,138 | 1,856 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 101 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Columbia 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 |
| Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 |
| 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 ÷ 30,817 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county