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2015 Orange County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Orange County, NY went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 487K customer-hours (New York average 1.6 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 62 New York counties and 973rd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orange County, 2015
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 6, 2015 03:30 | December 6, 2015 07:00 | 3h 30m | 38,907 | 79K |
| 2 | December 5, 2015 21:45 | December 6, 2015 02:45 | 5h | 20,733 | 23K |
| 3 | May 31, 2015 10:30 | June 1, 2015 14:15 | 1d 3h | 5,764 | 10K |
| 4 | June 27, 2015 01:00 | June 29, 2015 09:00 | 2d 8h | 5,442 | 16K |
| 5 | August 20, 2015 13:00 | August 21, 2015 23:15 | 1d 10h | 4,306 | 10K |
| 6 | September 1, 2015 18:30 | September 2, 2015 03:15 | 8h 45m | 4,171 | 13K |
| 7 | March 17, 2015 10:15 | March 18, 2015 18:00 | 1d 7h | 3,365 | 12K |
| 8 | March 4, 2015 10:30 | March 5, 2015 01:00 | 14h 30m | 3,298 | 14K |
| 9 | August 18, 2015 13:45 | August 19, 2015 04:30 | 14h 45m | 3,269 | 11K |
| 10 | June 3, 2015 14:00 | June 3, 2015 22:15 | 8h 15m | 2,577 | 1,217 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 219 reached 100+ customers, 54 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 Orange County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.29 | 2.5 hrs | 1.26 |
| Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 |
| Orange & Rockland Utils Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 176,531 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange County, NY annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/new-york/orange-county