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2016 Berkshire County, MA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Berkshire County, MA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 160K customer-hours (Massachusetts average 2.3 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 14 Massachusetts counties and 1486th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Massachusetts customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Berkshire County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 25, 2016 05:45 | July 25, 2016 15:45 | 10h | 14,312 | 14K |
| 2 | January 5, 2016 23:45 | January 6, 2016 01:00 | 1h 15m | 4,932 | 2,470 |
| 3 | April 11, 2016 13:45 | April 11, 2016 19:30 | 5h 45m | 4,508 | 2,263 |
| 4 | November 20, 2016 09:45 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 1d 3h | 4,268 | 21K |
| 5 | September 11, 2016 09:30 | September 12, 2016 06:30 | 21h | 2,995 | 9,554 |
| 6 | December 21, 2016 03:00 | December 21, 2016 03:30 | 30m | 2,954 | 1,477 |
| 7 | October 22, 2016 14:30 | October 24, 2016 01:45 | 1d 11h | 2,873 | 4,686 |
| 8 | August 14, 2016 01:00 | August 15, 2016 04:15 | 1d 3h | 2,603 | 11K |
| 9 | July 11, 2016 00:30 | July 11, 2016 02:00 | 1h 30m | 2,258 | 1,640 |
| 10 | October 26, 2016 13:15 | October 26, 2016 21:15 | 8h | 1,746 | 469 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 104 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Berkshire County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Electric Co | 2014 | 2.4 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| NSTAR Electric Company | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.08 | 1.6 hrs | 0.91 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Chester | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Massachusetts's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 99,023 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Berkshire County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berkshire County, MA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/massachusetts/berkshire-county