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2016 Bristol County, MA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bristol County, MA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 580K customer-hours (Massachusetts average 2.3 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 14 Massachusetts counties and 1323rd 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 Bristol 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 22, 2016 17:00 | July 24, 2016 08:15 | 1d 15h | 20,547 | 101K |
| 2 | February 5, 2016 14:15 | February 8, 2016 23:30 | 3d 9h | 16,431 | 244K |
| 3 | February 4, 2016 02:15 | February 4, 2016 05:45 | 3h 30m | 8,422 | 12K |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 19:15 | February 26, 2016 04:00 | 1d 8h | 7,227 | 25K |
| 5 | April 3, 2016 10:15 | April 4, 2016 04:00 | 17h 45m | 6,495 | 18K |
| 6 | February 16, 2016 03:15 | February 18, 2016 02:45 | 1d 23h | 5,925 | 18K |
| 7 | February 10, 2016 12:45 | February 10, 2016 22:30 | 9h 45m | 4,204 | 2,324 |
| 8 | August 12, 2016 23:15 | August 13, 2016 06:45 | 7h 30m | 3,112 | 5,869 |
| 9 | January 10, 2016 05:15 | January 10, 2016 05:45 | 30m | 2,860 | 1,430 |
| 10 | February 12, 2016 13:15 | February 12, 2016 20:30 | 7h 15m | 2,325 | 2,165 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 151 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Bristol 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 |
| City of Taunton | 2016 | 27 min | 1.79 | 27 min | 1.79 |
| Town of Mansfield - (MA) | 2016 | 13 min | 0.48 | 13 min | 0.48 |
| Town of North Attleborough - (MA) | 2016 | 19 min | 0.30 | 12 min | 0.21 |
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 ÷ 284,254 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. Bristol County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bristol 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/bristol-county