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2022 Orleans County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Orleans County, NY went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 244K customer-hours (New York average 3.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 62 New York counties and 582nd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orleans County, 2022
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 6, 2022 15:00 | March 8, 2022 06:30 | 1d 15h | 5,266 | 55K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 09:15 | December 26, 2022 22:00 | 3d 12h | 5,138 | 152K |
| 3 | November 12, 2022 18:45 | November 12, 2022 22:15 | 3h 30m | 1,799 | 5,256 |
| 4 | June 14, 2022 12:45 | June 14, 2022 15:15 | 2h 30m | 1,695 | 426 |
| 5 | July 6, 2022 22:15 | July 7, 2022 01:00 | 2h 45m | 1,594 | 853 |
| 6 | October 6, 2022 00:30 | October 6, 2022 02:30 | 2h | 1,273 | 2,327 |
| 7 | December 3, 2022 16:45 | December 4, 2022 00:00 | 7h 15m | 1,140 | 2,410 |
| 8 | October 15, 2022 18:45 | October 15, 2022 22:45 | 4h | 1,027 | 1,192 |
| 9 | November 17, 2022 11:45 | November 18, 2022 16:45 | 1d 5h | 947 | 5,496 |
| 10 | June 26, 2022 22:30 | June 27, 2022 01:45 | 3h 15m | 749 | 1,223 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 35 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Orleans County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 1.49 | 2.5 hrs | 1.18 |
| Village of Holley - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 20,376 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. Orleans County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orleans County, NY annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/new-york/orleans-county