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Power outage history

Saratoga County New York

9.1hours

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

23rd most of 62 in New York 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 7, 2020 41% of customers out · 90% back in 27 hours

Hours without power, average customer per year 9.1h / yr State average 4.3 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 2.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 10hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 3.0days Jul 16, 2024, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 86% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2020 21 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 117,711 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 Saratoga'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 21 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Saratoga, hours without power per customer

SaratogaUS median countyNew York average

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
Feb 7, 2020	Winter storm	48,632	41%	2.3 d	27 h	902k
Oct 31, 2019	Windstorm	31,994	27%	2.8 d	30 h	788k
Oct 7, 2020	Thunderstorms	18,982	16%	2.4 d	43 h	551k
May 15, 2020	Thunderstorms	32,746	28%	33 h	22 h	473k
May 4, 2018	Thunderstorms	15,691	13%	2.6 d	2.1 d	395k
Apr 19, 2022	Winter storm	21,196	18%	44 h	37 h	289k
Jul 16, 2024	Thunderstorms	11,579	10%	3.0 d	2.8 d	286k
Feb 28, 2024	Windstorm	14,527	12%	44 h	15 h	214k
Mar 23, 2024	Winter storm	9,275	8%	30 h	7.0 h	189k
Mar 2, 2017	Windstorm	25,001	21%	21 h	8.5 h	171k
Mar 14, 2023	Winter storm	14,441	12%	27 h	13 h	130k
Apr 4, 2018	Windstorm	7,068	6%	32 h	39 h	116k
Feb 16, 2025	Winter storm	16,467	14%	23 h	12 h	105k
May 18, 2017	Thunderstorms	6,030	5%	25 h	22 h	92k
Aug 17, 2019	Thunderstorms	12,677	11%	21 h	17 h	88k
May 29, 2020	Thunderstorms	13,329	11%	19 h	2.2 h	84k
Aug 4, 2020	Hurricane Isaias	19,003	16%	16 h	7.2 h	80k
Mar 4, 2023	Winter storm	12,446	11%	13 h	6.8 h	74k
Jun 18, 2018	Thunderstorms	11,292	10%	14 h	11 h	71k
Mar 7, 2022	Windstorm	6,829	6%	15 h	12 h	67k
Aug 13, 2016	Thunderstorms	5,803	5%	25 h	18 h	67k
Apr 7, 2016	Thunderstorms	8,042	7%	21 h	21 h	62k
Dec 11, 2021	Windstorm	12,425	11%	12 h	7.8 h	62k
Nov 24, 2015	No storm report	24,160	21%	7.0 h	4.5 h	58k
Oct 27, 2016	Winter storm	11,407	10%	10 h	6.0 h	58k
Jul 19, 2015	Thunderstorms	5,960	5%	11 h	8.2 h	52k
Apr 4, 2024	Winter storm	7,381	6%	10 h	7.2 h	50k
Feb 4, 2015	No storm report	11,218	10%	6.5 h	6.2 h	50k
Aug 18, 2019	Thunderstorms	11,005	9%	6.5 h	4.0 h	49k
Dec 29, 2025	Ice storm	5,511	5%	17 h	12 h	44k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

When it happens

The outage clock

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

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

Thunderstorms 33%
Winter storm 27%
Windstorm 21%
No storm on record 14%
Tropical storm 1.6%
Heat 1.4%
Ice storm 0.6%
Flooding 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Saratoga

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
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.	Investor Owned	242	140	1.39	19.9	1.5M
New York State Elec & Gas Corp	Investor Owned	302	146	1.85	22.6	794k

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

Hamilton 99 h
Warren 18 h
Washington 11 h
Fulton 9.8 h
Saratoga (this county) 9.1 h
Rensselaer 8.9 h
Albany 5.8 h
Montgomery 5.5 h
Schenectady 5.3 h

Across New York

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All New York counties →

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 117,711 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 →