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2017 Orange County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Orange County, NY went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 606K customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 62 New York counties and 1217th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orange County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 25, 2017 19:15 | February 28, 2017 09:15 | 2d 14h | 17,128 | 168K |
| 2 | October 24, 2017 03:45 | October 26, 2017 02:30 | 1d 22h | 6,260 | 24K |
| 3 | February 22, 2017 12:30 | February 23, 2017 11:30 | 23h | 5,782 | 3,207 |
| 4 | October 29, 2017 13:30 | November 1, 2017 08:30 | 2d 19h | 4,802 | 37K |
| 5 | March 16, 2017 10:30 | March 16, 2017 13:00 | 2h 30m | 3,583 | 2,976 |
| 6 | August 11, 2017 16:00 | August 11, 2017 19:00 | 3h | 3,404 | 854 |
| 7 | October 13, 2017 16:30 | October 13, 2017 21:00 | 4h 30m | 3,325 | 2,995 |
| 8 | March 2, 2017 05:45 | March 3, 2017 05:15 | 23h 30m | 3,245 | 19K |
| 9 | September 21, 2017 23:15 | September 21, 2017 23:45 | 30m | 3,186 | 1,593 |
| 10 | September 24, 2017 11:00 | September 24, 2017 12:15 | 1h 15m | 3,136 | 1,570 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 193 reached 100+ customers, 46 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 Orange County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/new-york/orange-county