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2020 Orange County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Orange County, NY went without power for an average of 20.9 hours, a total of 3.7M customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 62 New York counties and 411th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orange County, 2020
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 4, 2020 00:00 | August 15, 2020 06:00 | 11d 6h | 66,763 | 2.7M |
| 2 | December 24, 2020 18:00 | December 28, 2020 12:30 | 3d 18h | 17,026 | 227K |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 10:15 | April 17, 2020 23:45 | 4d 13h | 13,499 | 161K |
| 4 | August 26, 2020 11:45 | August 31, 2020 07:30 | 4d 19h | 11,156 | 169K |
| 5 | November 1, 2020 07:15 | November 4, 2020 05:45 | 2d 22h | 11,153 | 31K |
| 6 | November 15, 2020 15:00 | November 17, 2020 08:30 | 1d 17h | 6,837 | 30K |
| 7 | October 2, 2020 12:30 | October 2, 2020 12:45 | 15m | 5,254 | 1,314 |
| 8 | July 19, 2020 12:15 | July 20, 2020 20:45 | 1d 8h | 4,771 | 6,966 |
| 9 | June 28, 2020 10:45 | June 30, 2020 20:45 | 2d 10h | 4,300 | 28K |
| 10 | October 16, 2020 12:00 | October 18, 2020 03:30 | 1d 15h | 4,066 | 2,611 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 148 reached 100+ customers, 43 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 2020, 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 99% of New York's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/new-york/orange-county