Power Out Map
– 0% of Queens out 0 customers out in New York

Power outage history

Queens County New York

1.3hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

59th most of 62 in New York 80% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Isaias · Aug 5, 2020 6% of customers out · 90% back in 4.7 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.3h / yr State average 4.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4.7days Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.2days Hurricane Isaias, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 100% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 5.4 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 847,158 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Queens's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.4 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Queens, hours without power per customer

QueensUS median countyNew York average
0 2 4 6 8 0.5 ’15 0.4 ’16 0.5 ’17 0.9 ’18 0.8 ’19 5.4 ’20 0.7 ’21 0.6 ’22 0.4 ’23 0.6 ’24 0.9 ’25 US 6.6 NY 4.3

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 52,750 6% 5.2 d 4.7 d 3.7M
Jul 21, 2019 Heat 18,381 2% 6.5 h 16 h 80k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 9,384 1% 2.8 h 1.8 h 24k
Jul 22, 2019 Flooding 10,435 1% 1.8 h 14 h 18k
Jun 23, 2025 No storm report 10,245 1% 1.5 h 8.8 h 14k
Aug 9, 2020 No storm report 8,749 1% 48 min 13 h 6.5k

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Queens from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 96%
  • Heat 2.1%
  • Windstorm 0.6%
  • No storm on record 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Queens

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole New York territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Consolidated Edison Co-NY Inc Investor Owned 26 18 0.14 36.7 3.1M
Long Island Power Authority State 68 62 0.79 26.2 1.0M
North Shore Towers Apts Inc NY – – – 28.1 6.7k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across New York

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 847,158 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →