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2016 Orange County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orange County, NY went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 490K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 62 New York counties and 1056th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orange County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 11, 2016 20:00 | August 12, 2016 12:15 | 16h 15m | 5,694 | 13K |
| 2 | November 20, 2016 07:15 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 1d 5h | 5,351 | 28K |
| 3 | July 9, 2016 11:30 | July 11, 2016 01:00 | 1d 13h | 5,312 | 11K |
| 4 | October 24, 2016 02:45 | October 26, 2016 03:45 | 2d 1h | 5,025 | 12K |
| 5 | December 22, 2016 14:30 | December 22, 2016 17:45 | 3h 15m | 4,769 | 2,009 |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 11:45 | February 27, 2016 01:00 | 2d 13h | 3,196 | 26K |
| 7 | January 10, 2016 12:00 | January 11, 2016 19:45 | 1d 7h | 2,511 | 15K |
| 8 | April 3, 2016 09:15 | April 4, 2016 18:00 | 1d 8h | 2,506 | 15K |
| 9 | August 4, 2016 12:30 | August 4, 2016 21:15 | 8h 45m | 2,453 | 2,273 |
| 10 | August 13, 2016 12:45 | August 15, 2016 08:00 | 1d 19h | 2,385 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 234 reached 100+ customers, 53 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 1.56 | 3.6 hrs | 1.47 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/new-york/orange-county