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2022 Columbia County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Columbia County, NY went without power for an average of 12.2 hours, a total of 375K customer-hours (New York average 3.7 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 62 New York counties and 565th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 16, 2022 06:30 | January 17, 2022 01:30 | 19h | 15,149 | 42K |
| 2 | February 4, 2022 04:45 | February 6, 2022 15:00 | 2d 10h | 7,768 | 103K |
| 3 | July 12, 2022 19:30 | July 15, 2022 00:45 | 2d 5h | 7,556 | 33K |
| 4 | May 25, 2022 18:45 | May 25, 2022 19:00 | 15m | 6,334 | 1,584 |
| 5 | June 28, 2022 11:30 | June 28, 2022 16:00 | 4h 30m | 6,333 | 7,928 |
| 6 | August 30, 2022 21:45 | August 31, 2022 20:15 | 22h 30m | 4,207 | 12K |
| 7 | April 17, 2022 01:15 | April 17, 2022 08:00 | 6h 45m | 2,455 | 2,345 |
| 8 | November 6, 2022 12:00 | November 6, 2022 17:45 | 5h 45m | 2,316 | 5,614 |
| 9 | February 1, 2022 13:30 | February 1, 2022 15:30 | 2h | 2,255 | 1,129 |
| 10 | May 16, 2022 17:00 | May 16, 2022 19:15 | 2h 15m | 2,252 | 2,289 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 108 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 2022, 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. | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 1.49 | 2.5 hrs | 1.18 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/new-york/columbia-county