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2024 Essex County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Essex County, NY went without power for an average of 20.6 hours, a total of 482K customer-hours (New York average 4.0 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 62 New York counties and 492nd 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 Essex 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 | August 9, 2024 15:00 | August 12, 2024 01:00 | 2d 10h | 6,690 | 85K |
| 2 | February 28, 2024 23:15 | March 2, 2024 06:30 | 2d 7h | 4,610 | 98K |
| 3 | April 3, 2024 23:00 | April 5, 2024 23:15 | 2d | 3,637 | 50K |
| 4 | July 16, 2024 21:45 | July 19, 2024 13:15 | 2d 15h | 3,436 | 142K |
| 5 | August 21, 2024 21:45 | August 21, 2024 22:00 | 15m | 3,000 | 750 |
| 6 | March 10, 2024 05:30 | March 12, 2024 17:15 | 2d 11h | 2,620 | 27K |
| 7 | October 12, 2024 04:30 | October 13, 2024 22:30 | 1d 18h | 1,932 | 6,562 |
| 8 | March 14, 2024 15:15 | March 14, 2024 15:30 | 15m | 1,471 | 368 |
| 9 | July 31, 2024 12:00 | July 31, 2024 13:15 | 1h 15m | 1,374 | 1,718 |
| 10 | December 15, 2024 00:45 | December 15, 2024 04:30 | 3h 45m | 1,272 | 4,263 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 69 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Essex 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/essex-county