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2023 Columbia County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Columbia County, NY went without power for an average of 35.0 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 62 New York counties and 184th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 7, 2023 05:45 | September 11, 2023 02:30 | 3d 20h | 20,477 | 549K |
| 2 | March 14, 2023 07:15 | March 21, 2023 04:00 | 6d 20h | 14,161 | 374K |
| 3 | May 19, 2023 12:00 | May 19, 2023 18:00 | 6h | 5,310 | 4,037 |
| 4 | July 4, 2023 21:00 | July 6, 2023 22:45 | 2d 1h | 4,560 | 35K |
| 5 | July 13, 2023 20:45 | July 15, 2023 17:00 | 1d 20h | 3,703 | 34K |
| 6 | June 6, 2023 12:45 | June 6, 2023 17:45 | 5h | 1,505 | 2,420 |
| 7 | June 24, 2023 10:30 | June 24, 2023 21:00 | 10h 30m | 1,493 | 1,659 |
| 8 | August 9, 2023 13:30 | August 9, 2023 21:15 | 7h 45m | 1,490 | 1,620 |
| 9 | September 18, 2023 17:45 | September 19, 2023 01:45 | 8h | 1,360 | 2,198 |
| 10 | January 3, 2023 18:15 | January 3, 2023 20:30 | 2h 15m | 1,167 | 461 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 82 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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. | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.14 | 2.2 hrs | 0.98 |
| 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 n/a of New York's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/new-york/columbia-county