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2017 Ulster County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ulster County, NY went without power for an average of 13.3 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 62 New York counties and 411th 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 Ulster 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 15:45 | February 27, 2017 23:15 | 2d 7h | 19,621 | 344K |
| 2 | March 14, 2017 06:45 | March 15, 2017 18:45 | 1d 12h | 11,417 | 67K |
| 3 | February 13, 2017 07:15 | February 16, 2017 04:15 | 2d 21h | 9,320 | 150K |
| 4 | June 14, 2017 20:15 | June 15, 2017 02:00 | 5h 45m | 7,469 | 15K |
| 5 | October 29, 2017 19:30 | November 1, 2017 11:30 | 2d 16h | 6,361 | 125K |
| 6 | March 2, 2017 04:45 | March 3, 2017 22:15 | 1d 17h | 6,162 | 47K |
| 7 | March 30, 2017 19:15 | March 30, 2017 20:00 | 45m | 6,042 | 1,516 |
| 8 | October 24, 2017 06:15 | October 25, 2017 22:00 | 1d 15h | 3,383 | 16K |
| 9 | November 19, 2017 12:00 | November 20, 2017 04:00 | 16h | 3,351 | 18K |
| 10 | July 17, 2017 15:15 | July 19, 2017 02:30 | 1d 11h | 2,492 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 219 reached 100+ customers, 46 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 Ulster 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/ulster-county