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2024 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (New York average 4.0 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 62 New York counties and 2198th 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 Erie 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 | January 9, 2024 17:00 | January 15, 2024 12:00 | 5d 19h | 31,140 | 668K |
| 2 | July 9, 2024 09:15 | July 12, 2024 02:45 | 2d 17h | 26,867 | 57K |
| 3 | August 16, 2024 11:15 | August 18, 2024 11:30 | 2d | 18,029 | 55K |
| 4 | June 18, 2024 12:15 | June 21, 2024 07:00 | 2d 18h | 13,066 | 51K |
| 5 | July 29, 2024 09:15 | July 31, 2024 05:45 | 1d 20h | 12,456 | 57K |
| 6 | March 26, 2024 12:30 | March 27, 2024 05:15 | 16h 45m | 10,819 | 10K |
| 7 | February 8, 2024 12:45 | February 9, 2024 00:30 | 11h 45m | 9,030 | 7,565 |
| 8 | May 4, 2024 12:15 | May 4, 2024 20:30 | 8h 15m | 8,946 | 4,593 |
| 9 | October 25, 2024 21:45 | October 26, 2024 02:45 | 5h | 8,895 | 23K |
| 10 | October 3, 2024 12:15 | October 4, 2024 03:30 | 15h 15m | 8,888 | 35K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 195 reached 100+ customers, 69 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/erie-county