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2021 Ulster County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ulster County, NY went without power for an average of 14.1 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (New York average 2.7 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 62 New York counties and 597th 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 Ulster 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 | March 1, 2021 19:30 | March 4, 2021 11:30 | 2d 16h | 15,403 | 186K |
| 2 | December 11, 2021 20:15 | December 13, 2021 09:00 | 1d 12h | 7,340 | 51K |
| 3 | December 2, 2021 17:00 | December 4, 2021 22:30 | 2d 5h | 7,218 | 85K |
| 4 | July 6, 2021 09:15 | July 12, 2021 22:45 | 6d 13h | 6,777 | 117K |
| 5 | March 26, 2021 16:00 | March 28, 2021 01:15 | 1d 9h | 6,543 | 32K |
| 6 | March 13, 2021 02:30 | March 14, 2021 09:00 | 1d 6h | 4,713 | 46K |
| 7 | June 29, 2021 11:00 | July 2, 2021 19:15 | 3d 8h | 4,284 | 23K |
| 8 | December 6, 2021 15:30 | December 8, 2021 10:15 | 1d 18h | 4,237 | 37K |
| 9 | July 17, 2021 17:00 | July 20, 2021 01:45 | 2d 8h | 4,176 | 34K |
| 10 | April 30, 2021 10:45 | May 3, 2021 04:15 | 2d 17h | 3,739 | 35K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 210 reached 100+ customers, 61 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 Ulster 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 |
| 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 99% of New York's customers in 2021; 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, 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/ulster-county