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2022 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 2.9M customer-hours (New York average 3.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 62 New York counties and 1290th 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 Erie 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 | December 23, 2022 12:30 | December 29, 2022 07:45 | 5d 19h | 34,999 | 2.1M |
| 2 | August 5, 2022 13:15 | August 7, 2022 06:45 | 1d 17h | 11,361 | 16K |
| 3 | March 13, 2022 16:30 | March 14, 2022 00:30 | 8h | 9,510 | 24K |
| 4 | November 5, 2022 11:45 | November 7, 2022 23:45 | 2d 12h | 9,468 | 54K |
| 5 | August 8, 2022 12:00 | August 9, 2022 10:15 | 22h 15m | 8,979 | 21K |
| 6 | July 11, 2022 11:30 | July 13, 2022 01:15 | 1d 13h | 7,799 | 14K |
| 7 | November 16, 2022 21:45 | November 20, 2022 01:45 | 3d 4h | 7,769 | 93K |
| 8 | May 25, 2022 12:00 | May 26, 2022 03:15 | 15h 15m | 7,218 | 17K |
| 9 | April 4, 2022 12:00 | April 4, 2022 21:00 | 9h | 6,856 | 1,827 |
| 10 | March 22, 2022 13:00 | March 22, 2022 19:30 | 6h 30m | 6,852 | 1,809 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 255 reached 100+ customers, 80 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Erie 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 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Arcade - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Akron - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Springville - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 521,085 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county