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Power outage history

Dutchess County New York

12hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

13th most of 62 in New York 1.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Isaias · Aug 4, 2020 45% of customers out · 90% back in 2.7 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 12h / yr State average 4.3 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 1.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 28hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 4.8days Hurricane Isaias, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 90% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2018 28 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 150,017 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Dutchess's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 28 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Dutchess, hours without power per customer

DutchessUS median countyNew York average

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began	Storm	Peak out	Share	Lasted	90% restored	Customer-hours
Aug 4, 2020	Hurricane Isaias	67,413	45%	4.8 d	2.7 d	2.6M
Mar 2, 2018	Winter storm	34,503	23%	3.5 d	3.5 d	2.0M
May 15, 2018	Thunderstorms	23,998	16%	3.2 d	2.5 d	926k
Jul 3, 2025	Thunderstorms	17,253	12%	47 h	44 h	394k
Dec 25, 2020	Windstorm	18,931	13%	39 h	25 h	306k
Mar 7, 2018	Winter storm	16,816	11%	31 h	19 h	301k
Sep 7, 2023	Thunderstorms	16,902	11%	37 h	34 h	282k
Jul 6, 2021	Thunderstorms	22,231	15%	30 h	28 h	279k
Apr 13, 2020	Windstorm	19,587	13%	32 h	28 h	263k
Oct 31, 2019	Windstorm	18,247	12%	34 h	23 h	262k
Mar 14, 2023	Winter storm	14,297	10%	38 h	31 h	248k
Jun 26, 2024	Thunderstorms	22,089	15%	23 h	20 h	234k
Aug 3, 2018	Thunderstorms	19,949	13%	27 h	21 h	173k
Jul 24, 2022	Thunderstorms	12,108	8%	22 h	20 h	170k
Jun 30, 2024	Thunderstorms	8,870	6%	28 h	28 h	135k
Mar 5, 2018	No storm report	8,803	6%	24 h	36 h	130k
Jun 23, 2024	Thunderstorms	5,942	4%	23 h	27 h	85k
Aug 12, 2023	Thunderstorms	8,507	6%	15 h	15 h	77k
Feb 24, 2016	Thunderstorms	7,083	5%	15 h	17 h	72k
Oct 30, 2017	Windstorm	5,606	4%	21 h	30 h	70k
Aug 9, 2024	Hurricane Debby	7,891	5%	20 h	19 h	66k
Nov 15, 2020	Thunderstorms	6,596	4%	20 h	17 h	59k
Feb 25, 2017	Thunderstorms	6,652	4%	16 h	19 h	59k
Jun 18, 2018	Thunderstorms	6,374	4%	16 h	16 h	57k
Jul 2, 2020	Thunderstorms	8,600	6%	12 h	10 h	55k
Sep 1, 2021	Hurricane Ida	8,113	5%	14 h	11 h	49k
Aug 15, 2015	Thunderstorms	7,435	5%	13 h	14 h	49k
Jul 16, 2023	Flooding	8,482	6%	12 h	10 h	49k
Aug 13, 2016	Heat	7,032	5%	9.2 h	12 h	41k
Oct 16, 2019	Windstorm	7,113	5%	14 h	3.0 h	40k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Dutchess from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Thunderstorms 30%
Tropical storm 25%
Winter storm 24%
No storm on record 10%
Windstorm 9.9%
Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Dutchess

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole New York territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility	Type	Outage min / yr	Excl. major storms	Outages / yr	Residential ¢/kWh	Customers
New York State Elec & Gas Corp	Investor Owned	302	146	1.85	22.6	794k
Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp	Investor Owned	290	182	1.50	27.7	271k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Putnam 25 h
Ulster 17 h
Columbia 17 h
Litchfield, CT 13 h
Dutchess (this county) 12 h
Fairfield, CT 11 h
Orange 7.8 h
Berkshire, MA 3.3 h

Across New York

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All New York counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 150,017 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →