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

Power outage history

Schoharie County New York

9.8hours

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

20th most of 62 in New York 1.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 7, 2020 23% of customers out · 90% back in 44 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.8h / yr State average 4.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.6days Nov 22, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 67% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 23 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 14,522 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 Schoharie'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

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.

Schoharie, hours without power per customer

SchoharieUS median countyNew York average
0 10 20 30 2.9 ’15 4.3 ’16 3.5 ’17 9.2 ’18 4.7 ’19 12 ’20 9.4 ’21 8.8 ’22 4.7 ’23 23 ’24 6.8 ’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
Oct 7, 2020 Thunderstorms 3,399 23% 2.2 d 44 h 95k
Nov 22, 2024 Winter storm 2,617 18% 2.6 d 2.3 d 76k
Mar 23, 2024 Winter storm 1,782 12% 2.2 d 22 h 66k
Mar 7, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,841 13% 48 h 15 h 43k
Aug 11, 2021 Heat 1,889 13% 21 h 5.0 h 32k
Apr 19, 2022 Winter storm 1,285 9% 38 h 29 h 32k
Jan 28, 2024 Winter storm 2,987 21% 23 h 7.0 h 30k
Mar 2, 2018 Winter storm 1,687 12% 36 h 24 h 28k
Oct 31, 2025 Windstorm 1,722 12% 28 h 17 h 24k
Oct 17, 2025 No storm report 1,906 13% 14 h 14 h 24k
Apr 3, 2024 Winter storm 1,332 9% 35 h 17 h 22k
Aug 19, 2021 Tropical Storm Fred 2,003 14% 11 h 8.5 h 18k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +12h 90% by +22h

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 Schoharie from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 33%
  • Winter storm 32%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • Windstorm 7.2%
  • Tropical storm 3.8%
  • Heat 3.8%
  • Flooding 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Schoharie

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
Delaware County Elec Coop Inc NY 1,114 813 – – 44k
Village of Richmondville NY – – – – 13k

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 14,522 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 →