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2018 Orange County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Orange County, NY went without power for an average of 18.3 hours, a total of 3.2M customer-hours (New York average 7.4 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 60 New York counties and 310th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orange County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 15, 2018 16:15 | May 24, 2018 06:00 | 8d 13h | 67,715 | 2.2M |
| 2 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 25, 2018 02:45 | 18d 23h | 14,585 | 271K |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 08:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 16h | 12,377 | 245K |
| 4 | May 11, 2018 00:45 | May 11, 2018 03:45 | 3h | 6,390 | 5,356 |
| 5 | July 9, 2018 12:15 | July 11, 2018 04:45 | 1d 16h | 5,903 | 2,753 |
| 6 | June 1, 2018 14:30 | June 29, 2018 00:00 | 27d 9h | 4,879 | 61K |
| 7 | July 11, 2018 12:45 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 7d 10h | 4,736 | 27K |
| 8 | November 3, 2018 07:45 | November 8, 2018 06:00 | 4d 22h | 4,685 | 22K |
| 9 | August 17, 2018 21:30 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 13h 30m | 4,405 | 19K |
| 10 | August 3, 2018 02:15 | August 11, 2018 07:15 | 8d 5h | 2,845 | 46K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 135 reached 100+ customers, 46 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2018, 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 98% of New York's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/new-york/orange-county