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2023 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 62 New York counties and 2159th 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 Erie 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 | February 23, 2023 02:45 | February 26, 2023 04:45 | 3d 2h | 30,137 | 481K |
| 2 | July 20, 2023 11:15 | July 22, 2023 04:30 | 1d 17h | 12,961 | 90K |
| 3 | June 12, 2023 09:00 | June 14, 2023 03:30 | 1d 18h | 12,701 | 5,615 |
| 4 | August 24, 2023 13:00 | August 26, 2023 04:30 | 1d 15h | 9,905 | 100K |
| 5 | April 16, 2023 11:15 | April 18, 2023 03:15 | 1d 16h | 7,829 | 25K |
| 6 | March 25, 2023 12:00 | March 28, 2023 00:15 | 2d 12h | 7,672 | 51K |
| 7 | May 31, 2023 22:45 | June 1, 2023 07:15 | 8h 30m | 7,515 | 4,601 |
| 8 | April 1, 2023 01:15 | April 3, 2023 03:15 | 2d 2h | 5,933 | 25K |
| 9 | September 28, 2023 10:30 | September 28, 2023 21:00 | 10h 30m | 5,635 | 5,823 |
| 10 | October 5, 2023 20:45 | October 6, 2023 01:30 | 4h 45m | 4,675 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 234 reached 100+ customers, 74 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of New York's customers in 2023; 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, 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/erie-county