Orange County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Orange County, New York had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.11 times the US outage time per person and 1.80 times the New York rate. It ranks 26 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

138 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Mayhardest months

August and May made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 66,763 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 138.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated New York counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	364,273	215	1
2016	377,882	286	2
2017	480,850	220	3
2018	3,049,414	314	4
2019	494,892	248	3
2020	3,557,207	190	6
2021	503,640	238	4
2022	361,316	245	2
2023	878,096	254	5

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 4, 2020	138.2	66,763	2,692,537
May 15, 2018	97.8	67,715	2,205,322
Sep 7, 2023	47.2	15,130	235,191
Mar 7, 2018	43.5	14,585	233,290
Dec 25, 2020	42.0	17,026	224,380

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.