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2021 Putnam County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Putnam County, NY went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 286K customer-hours (New York average 2.7 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 62 New York counties and 1146th 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 Putnam 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 | November 30, 2021 10:45 | November 30, 2021 11:30 | 45m | 4,709 | 1,178 |
| 2 | September 23, 2021 16:15 | September 24, 2021 02:45 | 10h 30m | 4,441 | 10K |
| 3 | September 1, 2021 23:30 | September 3, 2021 03:45 | 1d 4h | 4,181 | 37K |
| 4 | March 2, 2021 03:15 | March 3, 2021 02:00 | 22h 45m | 4,039 | 27K |
| 5 | October 26, 2021 03:30 | October 28, 2021 05:00 | 2d 1h | 3,629 | 14K |
| 6 | August 23, 2021 00:30 | August 24, 2021 05:30 | 1d 5h | 3,345 | 16K |
| 7 | May 19, 2021 04:30 | May 19, 2021 15:00 | 10h 30m | 2,952 | 4,472 |
| 8 | July 17, 2021 11:00 | July 17, 2021 19:15 | 8h 15m | 2,921 | 7,764 |
| 9 | June 6, 2021 17:15 | June 7, 2021 09:30 | 16h 15m | 2,837 | 7,234 |
| 10 | August 18, 2021 00:00 | August 18, 2021 01:00 | 1h | 2,820 | 840 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 120 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Putnam 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 |
| 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 ÷ 47,493 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county