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2019 Orange County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Orange County, NY went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 616K customer-hours (New York average 3.0 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 62 New York counties and 1471st of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orange County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 22, 2019 12:00 | July 24, 2019 07:15 | 1d 19h | 11,710 | 19K |
| 2 | December 1, 2019 16:45 | December 8, 2019 08:15 | 6d 15h | 8,504 | 135K |
| 3 | October 16, 2019 07:30 | October 19, 2019 02:45 | 2d 19h | 6,285 | 40K |
| 4 | October 30, 2019 20:30 | November 3, 2019 11:45 | 3d 15h | 5,696 | 51K |
| 5 | September 21, 2019 08:00 | September 22, 2019 02:30 | 18h 30m | 5,320 | 12K |
| 6 | May 25, 2019 01:00 | June 9, 2019 01:00 | 15d | 5,283 | 27K |
| 7 | August 17, 2019 23:00 | August 21, 2019 08:30 | 3d 9h | 4,739 | 14K |
| 8 | May 19, 2019 08:15 | May 22, 2019 21:45 | 3d 13h | 4,608 | 15K |
| 9 | November 10, 2019 00:15 | November 10, 2019 03:30 | 3h 15m | 4,404 | 3,871 |
| 10 | May 1, 2019 11:30 | May 1, 2019 22:15 | 10h 45m | 4,012 | 1,980 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 173 reached 100+ customers, 41 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 2019, 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 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/new-york/orange-county