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2024 Columbia County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Columbia County, NY went without power for an average of 20.3 hours, a total of 626K customer-hours (New York average 4.0 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 62 New York counties and 499th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2024
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 23, 2024 11:30 | March 26, 2024 00:45 | 2d 13h | 8,654 | 103K |
| 2 | August 9, 2024 14:45 | August 12, 2024 00:00 | 2d 9h | 5,653 | 59K |
| 3 | April 3, 2024 16:30 | April 6, 2024 21:00 | 3d 4h | 4,677 | 121K |
| 4 | January 13, 2024 08:00 | January 15, 2024 23:45 | 2d 15h | 3,663 | 70K |
| 5 | June 3, 2024 12:15 | June 3, 2024 16:15 | 4h | 3,588 | 3,028 |
| 6 | July 16, 2024 22:30 | July 20, 2024 00:15 | 3d 1h | 3,376 | 84K |
| 7 | April 19, 2024 19:00 | April 20, 2024 04:00 | 9h | 2,323 | 1,174 |
| 8 | May 22, 2024 22:30 | May 23, 2024 07:45 | 9h 15m | 2,320 | 7,080 |
| 9 | October 15, 2024 23:45 | October 16, 2024 05:30 | 5h 45m | 2,304 | 2,311 |
| 10 | January 28, 2024 22:45 | January 30, 2024 02:45 | 1d 4h | 2,289 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 72 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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. | 2024 | 8.5 hrs | 1.69 | 2.3 hrs | 1.05 |
| Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp | 2024 | 5.8 hrs | 1.60 | 2.8 hrs | 1.20 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/new-york/columbia-county