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2016 Hampshire County, MA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hampshire County, MA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 127K customer-hours (Massachusetts average 2.3 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 14 Massachusetts counties and 1648th 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 Hampshire 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 | February 3, 2016 23:00 | February 4, 2016 20:30 | 21h 30m | 5,643 | 10K |
| 2 | June 25, 2016 17:00 | June 25, 2016 22:15 | 5h 15m | 5,193 | 11K |
| 3 | October 13, 2016 18:15 | October 13, 2016 19:00 | 45m | 5,114 | 1,948 |
| 4 | October 27, 2016 21:00 | October 28, 2016 23:30 | 1d 2h | 4,891 | 27K |
| 5 | September 11, 2016 12:45 | September 12, 2016 06:15 | 17h 30m | 3,757 | 10K |
| 6 | November 4, 2016 15:15 | November 4, 2016 17:00 | 1h 45m | 2,974 | 745 |
| 7 | January 25, 2016 17:15 | January 25, 2016 18:00 | 45m | 2,058 | 919 |
| 8 | October 23, 2016 10:00 | October 24, 2016 06:30 | 20h 30m | 1,902 | 3,551 |
| 9 | January 8, 2016 15:15 | January 8, 2016 17:00 | 1h 45m | 1,739 | 1,379 |
| 10 | April 16, 2016 11:15 | April 16, 2016 13:45 | 2h 30m | 1,445 | 1,473 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 89 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Hampshire 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 |
| Town of South Hadley - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 101,974 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. Hampshire County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hampshire 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/hampshire-county