Power Out Map
– 0% of Ulster out 0 customers out in New York

Power outage history

Ulster County New York

17hours

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

6th most of 62 in New York 2.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 4, 2022 54% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 4.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 23hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.5days Feb 4, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 88% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 40 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 89,470 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 Ulster'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 40 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Ulster, hours without power per customer

UlsterUS median countyNew York average
0 10 20 30 40 50 6.4 ’15 7.8 ’16 13 ’17 24 ’18 11 ’19 15 ’20 14 ’21 40 ’22 12 ’23 11 ’24 11 ’25 US 6.6 NY 4.3

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
Feb 4, 2022 Ice storm 47,925 54% 4.5 d 2.9 d 2.4M
Mar 2, 2018 Winter storm 29,745 33% 3.4 d 2.2 d 800k
Sep 7, 2023 Thunderstorms 19,783 22% 46 h 42 h 408k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 14,197 16% 2.2 d 38 h 389k
Feb 25, 2017 Thunderstorms 19,621 22% 32 h 23 h 333k
Mar 7, 2018 Winter storm 19,596 22% 30 h 23 h 330k
Jul 24, 2022 Thunderstorms 19,387 22% 40 h 22 h 295k
Oct 31, 2019 Windstorm 14,825 17% 46 h 31 h 283k
May 15, 2018 Thunderstorms 13,766 15% 2.3 d 48 h 278k
Jul 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 13,590 15% 42 h 35 h 255k
Jul 3, 2025 Thunderstorms 18,315 20% 21 h 16 h 238k
Dec 24, 2020 Flooding 15,880 18% 35 h 14 h 182k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +16h 90% by +32h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • Ice storm 25%
  • Thunderstorms 23%
  • Winter storm 15%
  • Windstorm 15%
  • No storm on record 12%
  • Tropical storm 5.9%
  • Flooding 2.7%
  • Heat 1.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Ulster

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

Across New York

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 89,470 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 →