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2022 Essex County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Essex County, NY went without power for an average of 24.3 hours, a total of 568K customer-hours (New York average 3.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 62 New York counties and 260th 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 Essex 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 16, 2022 10:45 | December 19, 2022 06:00 | 2d 19h | 12,522 | 160K |
| 2 | March 29, 2022 18:00 | March 29, 2022 20:30 | 2h 30m | 8,966 | 12K |
| 3 | April 19, 2022 01:15 | April 23, 2022 04:00 | 4d 2h | 7,360 | 203K |
| 4 | April 7, 2022 23:00 | April 8, 2022 14:00 | 15h | 7,326 | 27K |
| 5 | July 26, 2022 13:30 | July 26, 2022 15:15 | 1h 45m | 5,559 | 2,498 |
| 6 | October 18, 2022 12:45 | October 18, 2022 17:45 | 5h | 5,478 | 2,789 |
| 7 | August 30, 2022 18:45 | September 1, 2022 22:15 | 2d 3h | 5,218 | 56K |
| 8 | October 19, 2022 19:00 | October 19, 2022 19:15 | 15m | 5,139 | 1,285 |
| 9 | January 1, 2022 08:00 | January 1, 2022 13:30 | 5h 30m | 3,431 | 9,436 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 10:45 | December 24, 2022 17:00 | 1d 6h | 2,776 | 5,176 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 66 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Essex 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lake Placid Village, Inc - (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 ÷ 23,389 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county