Power outage history
Steuben County New York
12hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
12th most of 62 in New York 1.8× the national median
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 Steuben's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 23 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Steuben, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 11,165 | 40% | 2.8 d | 39 h | 359k |
| Mar 1, 2018 | Winter storm | 8,230 | 30% | 3.9 d | 3.5 d | 332k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 4,324 | 16% | 45 h | 36 h | 96k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,039 | 15% | 2.0 d | 30 h | 92k |
| Feb 16, 2016 | No storm report | 6,293 | 23% | 40 h | 35 h | 87k |
| Dec 2, 2019 | Winter storm | 5,277 | 19% | 33 h | 27 h | 79k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 9,961 | 36% | 24 h | 6.8 h | 76k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,684 | 13% | 26 h | 22 h | 46k |
| Apr 4, 2018 | Windstorm | 4,334 | 16% | 30 h | 20 h | 42k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 2,176 | 8% | 30 h | 23 h | 34k |
| Jul 25, 2016 | No storm report | 5,538 | 20% | 24 h | 20 h | 33k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Windstorm | 4,096 | 15% | 27 h | 22 h | 32k |
| Aug 9, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 4,035 | 15% | 24 h | 22 h | 27k |
| May 30, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 3,141 | 11% | 13 h | 9.2 h | 27k |
| May 14, 2017 | No storm report | 1,466 | 5% | 19 h | 4.2 h | 25k |
| May 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,816 | 7% | 20 h | 21 h | 24k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 2,530 | 9% | 20 h | 17 h | 22k |
| Aug 15, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,451 | 9% | 11 h | 9.2 h | 18k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,871 | 14% | 11 h | 3.5 h | 18k |
| Jul 30, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,789 | 10% | 8.5 h | 7.8 h | 17k |
| Jul 24, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,826 | 7% | 20 h | 18 h | 17k |
| Jun 12, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 3,390 | 12% | 16 h | 14 h | 15k |
| Mar 2, 2017 | No storm report | 2,154 | 8% | 16 h | 5.5 h | 15k |
| Jan 10, 2016 | No storm report | 3,440 | 12% | 6.8 h | 3.0 h | 14k |
| Jun 21, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 2,635 | 10% | 8.2 h | 11 h | 13k |
| Apr 18, 2022 | No storm report | 2,417 | 9% | 5.8 h | 8.0 h | 13k |
| Jun 27, 2015 | No storm report | 1,648 | 6% | 17 h | 13 h | 13k |
| Feb 4, 2016 | No storm report | 2,216 | 8% | 5.8 h | 5.5 h | 13k |
| Oct 19, 2025 | No storm report | 3,689 | 13% | 8.5 h | 4.8 h | 13k |
| Mar 27, 2018 | No storm report | 3,989 | 14% | 5.2 h | 3.8 h | 13k |
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 Steuben from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 40%
- Thunderstorms 35%
- Winter storm 19%
- Windstorm 3.5%
- Tropical storm 1.5%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Steuben
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | Investor Owned | 302 | 146 | 1.85 | 22.6 | 794k |
| Steuben Rural Elec Coop, Inc | NY | 883 | 533 | 3.15 | 12.3 | 67k |
| Bath Electric Gas & Water | NY | – | – | – | – | 47k |
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
- Schuyler 25 h
- Steuben (this county) 12 h
- Yates 10 h
- Potter, PA 8.4 h
- Tioga, PA 7.3 h
- Allegany 6.7 h
- Chemung 4.5 h
- Livingston 3.5 h
- Ontario 2.7 h
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 27,662 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 →