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2021 Orange County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Orange County, NY went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 645K customer-hours (New York average 2.7 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 62 New York counties and 1633rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orange County, 2021
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 31, 2021 18:15 | September 5, 2021 11:30 | 4d 17h | 8,295 | 68K |
| 2 | July 6, 2021 05:15 | July 9, 2021 06:45 | 3d 1h | 8,004 | 49K |
| 3 | January 24, 2021 18:00 | January 24, 2021 20:30 | 2h 30m | 5,934 | 1,520 |
| 4 | June 8, 2021 14:15 | June 9, 2021 08:15 | 18h | 4,538 | 26K |
| 5 | March 26, 2021 16:00 | March 29, 2021 01:45 | 2d 9h | 4,394 | 17K |
| 6 | August 11, 2021 12:30 | August 13, 2021 10:00 | 1d 21h | 3,833 | 23K |
| 7 | September 10, 2021 11:30 | September 10, 2021 21:00 | 9h 30m | 3,711 | 2,097 |
| 8 | June 14, 2021 20:45 | June 15, 2021 02:45 | 6h | 3,662 | 5,802 |
| 9 | November 12, 2021 08:30 | November 15, 2021 22:30 | 3d 14h | 2,978 | 20K |
| 10 | January 15, 2021 14:45 | January 16, 2021 00:30 | 9h 45m | 2,844 | 2,992 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 186 reached 100+ customers, 55 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 2021, 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/new-york/orange-county