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2021 Washington County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Washington County, NY went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 158K customer-hours (New York average 2.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 62 New York counties and 1250th 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 Washington 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 | July 8, 2021 02:45 | July 8, 2021 05:30 | 2h 45m | 3,749 | 2,827 |
| 2 | June 21, 2021 17:30 | June 23, 2021 01:15 | 1d 7h | 3,218 | 14K |
| 3 | March 1, 2021 21:45 | March 3, 2021 02:30 | 1d 4h | 2,773 | 9,475 |
| 4 | August 5, 2021 10:15 | August 5, 2021 20:00 | 9h 45m | 2,431 | 11K |
| 5 | November 18, 2021 19:15 | November 18, 2021 19:30 | 15m | 2,334 | 584 |
| 6 | August 25, 2021 20:30 | August 26, 2021 07:00 | 10h 30m | 1,774 | 2,548 |
| 7 | September 21, 2021 11:45 | September 21, 2021 17:30 | 5h 45m | 1,629 | 832 |
| 8 | September 8, 2021 22:30 | September 9, 2021 23:45 | 1d 1h | 1,522 | 6,677 |
| 9 | July 7, 2021 14:30 | July 7, 2021 20:30 | 6h | 1,398 | 1,124 |
| 10 | October 7, 2021 05:00 | October 7, 2021 14:00 | 9h | 1,251 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 83 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/washington-county