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2023 Orange County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Orange County, NY went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 62 New York counties and 1303rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orange County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 6, 2023 22:30 | September 11, 2023 04:45 | 4d 6h | 15,130 | 239K |
| 2 | July 8, 2023 18:00 | July 18, 2023 08:00 | 9d 14h | 14,621 | 264K |
| 3 | July 3, 2023 10:30 | July 8, 2023 09:30 | 4d 23h | 7,181 | 29K |
| 4 | March 2, 2023 15:30 | March 3, 2023 05:45 | 14h 15m | 6,625 | 6,019 |
| 5 | November 12, 2023 12:45 | November 15, 2023 12:00 | 2d 23h | 5,735 | 41K |
| 6 | December 27, 2023 11:00 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 4d 13h | 3,241 | 18K |
| 7 | May 26, 2023 16:45 | May 26, 2023 18:45 | 2h | 3,213 | 1,984 |
| 8 | July 27, 2023 09:00 | August 1, 2023 10:15 | 5d 1h | 2,811 | 26K |
| 9 | March 13, 2023 01:00 | March 16, 2023 07:30 | 3d 6h | 2,800 | 13K |
| 10 | December 18, 2023 05:45 | December 27, 2023 04:45 | 8d 23h | 2,745 | 29K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 185 reached 100+ customers, 44 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2023, 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 n/a of New York's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/new-york/orange-county