National Grid has restored power to all but 90 in Orleans County

By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 31 December 2025 at 8:28 am

National Grid has the power back on for nearly all of its customers.

As of 8:18 a.m. today, there were still 90 National Grid customers without electricity, and 89 of those were in Carlton. The power is expected to be restored by noon today.

The powerful winds on Monday at one point had nearly 4,000 customers without electricity in Orleans County. National Grid has 19,724 customers in the county.

National Grid had 150,100 customers affected by an outage in Upstate New York from the wind. As of this morning, there are 482 customers left to be restored with power.

The company deployed nearly 3,400 line, tree, public safety and damage assessment specialists beginning Sunday to remove broken tree limbs and uprooted trees, and repair downed lines, broken poles, and other infrastructure damaged by the storm.