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2025 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 851K customer-hours (New York average 2.4 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 62 New York counties and 2559th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Erie County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 29, 2025 09:30 | January 1, 2026 00:00 | 2d 14h | 26,515 | 243K |
| 2 | November 26, 2025 15:00 | November 29, 2025 04:15 | 2d 13h | 10,592 | 102K |
| 3 | September 10, 2025 12:30 | September 10, 2025 21:15 | 8h 45m | 5,753 | 9,249 |
| 4 | April 19, 2025 11:30 | April 20, 2025 04:45 | 17h 15m | 5,416 | 23K |
| 5 | January 8, 2025 13:45 | January 8, 2025 21:00 | 7h 15m | 5,308 | 6,817 |
| 6 | August 31, 2025 12:15 | September 1, 2025 06:15 | 18h | 5,221 | 13K |
| 7 | September 1, 2025 22:15 | September 2, 2025 06:15 | 8h | 4,791 | 10K |
| 8 | July 17, 2025 12:00 | July 20, 2025 05:00 | 2d 17h | 4,539 | 29K |
| 9 | March 23, 2025 14:45 | March 24, 2025 11:45 | 21h | 3,225 | 14K |
| 10 | April 2, 2025 13:45 | April 4, 2025 05:00 | 1d 15h | 3,121 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 232 reached 100+ customers, 67 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/new-york/erie-county