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2023 Washington County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Washington County, NY went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 335K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 62 New York counties and 740th 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 Washington 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 07:30 | March 16, 2023 22:30 | 2d 15h | 9,436 | 152K |
| 2 | July 13, 2023 16:30 | July 15, 2023 04:15 | 1d 11h | 5,891 | 32K |
| 3 | July 9, 2023 19:15 | July 11, 2023 09:00 | 1d 13h | 3,114 | 18K |
| 4 | August 15, 2023 01:15 | August 15, 2023 07:45 | 6h 30m | 2,494 | 4,698 |
| 5 | April 17, 2023 01:00 | April 17, 2023 02:00 | 1h | 2,201 | 2,201 |
| 6 | March 4, 2023 08:00 | March 5, 2023 01:00 | 17h | 2,184 | 7,540 |
| 7 | September 7, 2023 22:45 | September 10, 2023 01:15 | 2d 2h | 1,991 | 23K |
| 8 | February 24, 2023 00:00 | February 24, 2023 05:30 | 5h 30m | 1,934 | 2,969 |
| 9 | March 2, 2023 11:45 | March 2, 2023 13:00 | 1h 15m | 1,745 | 2,181 |
| 10 | July 6, 2023 18:00 | July 7, 2023 02:15 | 8h 15m | 1,452 | 2,784 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 88 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Washington 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 29,152 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county