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2023 Putnam County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Putnam County, NY went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 317K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 62 New York counties and 1189th 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 Putnam 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 3, 2023 15:30 | February 6, 2023 00:45 | 2d 9h | 4,704 | 38K |
| 2 | July 29, 2023 22:30 | July 31, 2023 04:30 | 1d 6h | 4,638 | 14K |
| 3 | March 23, 2023 16:30 | March 23, 2023 17:15 | 45m | 4,399 | 2,510 |
| 4 | March 7, 2023 18:15 | March 8, 2023 06:30 | 12h 15m | 3,755 | 8,013 |
| 5 | March 11, 2023 10:00 | March 11, 2023 16:45 | 6h 45m | 3,751 | 5,327 |
| 6 | August 13, 2023 00:30 | August 14, 2023 03:15 | 1d 2h | 3,467 | 16K |
| 7 | June 2, 2023 22:30 | June 3, 2023 13:15 | 14h 45m | 3,421 | 3,614 |
| 8 | September 8, 2023 00:00 | September 10, 2023 02:00 | 2d 2h | 3,159 | 21K |
| 9 | November 22, 2023 00:15 | November 22, 2023 15:15 | 15h | 2,932 | 9,453 |
| 10 | May 20, 2023 19:45 | May 21, 2023 03:00 | 7h 15m | 2,806 | 1,865 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 113 reached 100+ customers, 28 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Putnam 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 |
| 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 ÷ 47,493 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county