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2024 Ulster County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ulster County, NY went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (New York average 4.0 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 62 New York counties and 829th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ulster County, 2024
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 26, 2024 10:45 | August 27, 2024 02:30 | 15h 45m | 8,344 | 6,236 |
| 2 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | July 24, 2024 17:15 | 61d 8h | 7,699 | 328K |
| 3 | February 28, 2024 18:45 | March 1, 2024 23:30 | 2d 4h | 5,624 | 76K |
| 4 | March 10, 2024 12:00 | March 13, 2024 10:45 | 2d 22h | 4,520 | 78K |
| 5 | August 8, 2024 13:45 | August 13, 2024 03:00 | 4d 13h | 3,893 | 110K |
| 6 | November 21, 2024 22:30 | November 25, 2024 10:45 | 3d 12h | 3,858 | 100K |
| 7 | September 25, 2024 08:45 | September 25, 2024 13:45 | 5h | 3,449 | 893 |
| 8 | November 8, 2024 22:45 | November 9, 2024 20:15 | 21h 30m | 2,941 | 23K |
| 9 | January 12, 2024 19:45 | January 15, 2024 23:30 | 3d 3h | 2,626 | 18K |
| 10 | March 29, 2024 14:15 | March 29, 2024 22:30 | 8h 15m | 2,523 | 8,788 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 135 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Ulster County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 5.8 hrs | 1.60 | 2.8 hrs | 1.20 |
| 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 n/a of New York's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/new-york/ulster-county