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Who serves Yates County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include NYSEG and RG&E, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Village of Penn Yan also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Yates County, NY
Last significant outage: Sep 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,621 customers, restored in ~17 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 7 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 14, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Yates County, NY
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
279 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~7,666 customers out in January 2024, restored after about 43.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Yates County include Penn Yan, Dundee, Rushville, Dresden, Barrington, Benton, Italy and Jerusalem. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Yates County, NY?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Yates include NYSEG, RG&E and Village of Penn Yan — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
