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2023 Essex County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Essex County, NY went without power for an average of 14.6 hours, a total of 341K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 62 New York counties and 601st 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 Essex 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 | March 14, 2023 06:45 | March 16, 2023 20:45 | 2d 14h | 14,524 | 121K |
| 2 | November 16, 2023 21:45 | November 17, 2023 01:45 | 4h | 7,371 | 27K |
| 3 | August 15, 2023 20:45 | August 15, 2023 23:30 | 2h 45m | 7,365 | 3,420 |
| 4 | December 9, 2023 13:00 | December 9, 2023 20:15 | 7h 15m | 7,356 | 44K |
| 5 | March 16, 2023 22:15 | March 17, 2023 00:45 | 2h 30m | 4,551 | 1,140 |
| 6 | June 26, 2023 19:30 | June 27, 2023 02:15 | 6h 45m | 3,173 | 4,872 |
| 7 | November 27, 2023 05:15 | November 28, 2023 03:30 | 22h 15m | 2,941 | 21K |
| 8 | February 4, 2023 02:30 | February 4, 2023 08:15 | 5h 45m | 2,662 | 7,570 |
| 9 | June 10, 2023 01:30 | June 10, 2023 02:15 | 45m | 2,517 | 1,888 |
| 10 | July 29, 2023 18:30 | July 30, 2023 01:00 | 6h 30m | 2,433 | 1,417 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 85 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 n/a of New York's customers in 2023; 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, 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/essex-county