Natural Gas Outages in New York City, New York

Natural gas use in New York City

Gas is the main way New York City heats its homes: 64.4% of households use utility gas, well above the 46.5% national share, so a gas outage here quickly becomes a heating outage.

• Homes heated with utility gas: 64.4% of 3,334,088 households in New York City (about 2,148,782 homes), against 59.1% across New York and 46.5% nationally. Electricity heats 16.8% of homes here, and bottled or propane gas 2.6%. Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 (table B25040)
• Age of the housing: the median home in New York City was built in 1952; 59.9% of housing units date from before 1960 and 6.8% from 2010 or later (New York: 52% before 1960). Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 (tables B25034, B25035)
• New York residential gas price, 2025: $17.58 per thousand cubic feet, against $15.34 nationally; up 37.3% since 2020. Source: EIA, residential natural gas prices by state
• New York residential gas customers, 2024: 4,617,162, up 4.8% from 4,406,039 in 2014. Source: EIA, residential natural gas consumers by state
• New York County winter weather since 2015: 33 cold-season storm episodes (winter weather 18, winter storm 10, heavy snow 4), most often in February. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database
• February 23, 2026 (blizzard): “A major snowfall occurred region wide, with portions of the region receiving historic snowfall totals.||A college student died from carbon monoxide poisoning while charging his cell phone during the blizzard.” Source: NOAA Storm Events Database

Checked September 2026.