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2016 Ulster County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ulster County, NY went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 696K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 62 New York counties and 453rd 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 Ulster 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 12, 2016 20:45 | August 16, 2016 07:45 | 3d 11h | 10,954 | 92K |
| 2 | November 11, 2016 13:15 | November 12, 2016 04:30 | 15h 15m | 7,246 | 18K |
| 3 | July 17, 2016 02:15 | July 18, 2016 03:30 | 1d 1h | 4,936 | 43K |
| 4 | April 5, 2016 12:30 | April 8, 2016 22:00 | 3d 9h | 4,101 | 21K |
| 5 | April 3, 2016 08:15 | April 4, 2016 23:30 | 1d 15h | 3,844 | 36K |
| 6 | April 12, 2016 09:15 | April 12, 2016 14:15 | 5h | 3,787 | 10K |
| 7 | October 3, 2016 15:30 | October 3, 2016 16:00 | 30m | 3,752 | 1,767 |
| 8 | July 14, 2016 15:30 | July 15, 2016 02:30 | 11h | 3,519 | 4,873 |
| 9 | December 18, 2016 05:00 | December 19, 2016 13:00 | 1d 8h | 3,329 | 17K |
| 10 | August 23, 2016 12:30 | August 23, 2016 21:00 | 8h 30m | 3,064 | 2,221 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 206 reached 100+ customers, 49 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Ulster 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 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
| Orange & Rockland Utils 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 ÷ 89,470 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. Ulster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ulster 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/ulster-county