Mount Vernon, New York Power Outage Today

How reliable is Con Edison service in Mount Vernon?

Con Edison is an investor-owned utility with 3,686,348 customers. In 2024 its customers averaged 0.13 interruptions and 28 minutes (28 minutes) without power, so the average outage lasted about 3.6 hours.

Major event days, the severe-weather days that utilities report separately, made up about 46% of that time. Without them the average is 15 minutes, so weather matters here but ordinary equipment faults and tree contact account for most of the total.

Outages are infrequent, fewer than one per customer a year, and each was fixed in about 3.6 hours on average.

For comparison, New York as a whole averaged 220 minutes and the United States 614 minutes. That puts Con Edison below the state average, which is better.

Among the 11 utilities in New York with at least 5,000 customers that report to the federal government, Con Edison ranks 4th for the fewest outage minutes (1 is best). Nationally, 91% of the 926 utilities of that size reported more outage minutes in 2024.

This utility reports with its own method rather than the IEEE standard, so compare its numbers with other utilities loosely.

These are the figures the utility itself reported to the US Energy Information Administration (Form EIA-861, 2024) and describe the whole service territory, not one street. Your own address can be better or worse.

Storm season and outages in Mount Vernon

NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 278 storm reports for Westchester County from 2015 through 2026, most often thunderstorm wind (132), flash flood (122), hail (16), and flood (6). The busiest full year was 2023 with 54 reports and the quietest was 2015 with 5, so the risk changes a lot from one year to the next.

Reports peak in July (100 since 2015), followed by September and June. October is outside those three months, so an outage now is less likely to be weather-related.

NOAA’s own narratives name power outages in 6 storm episodes in Westchester County since 2015, most often in January. That count is a floor, since the database records outages only when a spotter or agency mentions them.

What the most common storm types in Mount Vernon do to the grid:

• Flash flood. Floodwater reaches ground-level transformers, meters and low-lying substations. Utilities may shut power off ahead of the water on purpose, and wading near flooded equipment can electrocute.

Storm reports that name Mount Vernon

Within Westchester County, 9 NOAA storm reports since 2015 name Mount Vernon as their location or in their description: flash flood (7) and flood (2). That is about 3% of the county’s reports, so most of the county’s weather history happened elsewhere. These reports record 1 death in total.

Who a power outage hits hardest in Mount Vernon

Home heating in Mount Vernon is mixed: 17.2% of occupied homes use electricity (US 41.3%) and 49.2% use piped natural gas. Either way, furnaces and heat pumps need grid power to run, so a winter outage means a cold house for most households.

Residents aged 65 or older are 17.1% of the population in Mount Vernon, close to the US share of 17.2% and 13.2% report a disability (US 13.3%). These are the households most likely to depend on powered medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators, CPAP machines and refrigerated medicine. If someone in your home does, ask Con Edison whether it keeps a priority or medical-needs list, and register before the next storm rather than during it.

About the housing: 70.3% of the housing in Mount Vernon was built before 1970 (US 35.5%), and older neighborhoods often have overhead service lines and mature trees close to the wires, which makes them more exposed to storm outages; 34.4% of homes are in buildings with 20 or more units (US 10.3%), where an outage also stops elevators and water pumps, which matters for upper floors and anyone who cannot use stairs; 57.1% of households rent (US 34.8%), so many residents depend on a landlord to restore building systems and cannot add a generator or battery themselves.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 (housing, heating fuel, age and disability tables).

Backup power and electricity use in Mount Vernon

The average Con Edison home used about 365 kWh a month in 2024 (US average 892 kWh), an average draw of 0.5 kW around the clock, and paid about 35.7 cents per kWh (23.8 in the state, 15.8 nationally), roughly $130 a month.

Keeping only the essentials on (a refrigerator, router, a few lights and phone chargers, about 400 watts) through an outage that lasts the average about 3.6 hours takes about 1.4 kWh. A portable power station or a power bank covers that; a generator is more than most households here need for a typical outage.

A generator must never run indoors, in a garage or near a window; generator and food-safety rules are in the power outage guide linked below.

If the power is out in Mount Vernon

About 72,726 people live in Mount Vernon, the 8th largest of the 10 New York cities on this site. Report the outage to the utility so a ticket exists for your address, then check Con Edison’s outage map for an estimate. If neighbors have power and you do not, report it again: the fault may be on the line to your house alone, which is a separate repair.

Mount Vernon power outage map

Con Edison’s outage map has the official restoration estimate for your address; the count above comes from residents. Food and generator safety: power outage guide.

Mount Vernon power outage questions