County annual report · FIPS 36009
2016 Cattaraugus County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cattaraugus County, NY went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 62 New York counties and 1002nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cattaraugus 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 | October 3, 2016 18:45 | October 3, 2016 20:45 | 2h | 1,342 | 2,179 |
| 2 | March 2, 2016 01:45 | March 2, 2016 14:30 | 12h 45m | 1,223 | 3,970 |
| 3 | March 28, 2016 16:15 | March 29, 2016 05:00 | 12h 45m | 1,117 | 5,031 |
| 4 | June 4, 2016 18:45 | June 4, 2016 21:45 | 3h | 1,095 | 277 |
| 5 | June 22, 2016 22:45 | June 23, 2016 09:15 | 10h 30m | 1,038 | 2,995 |
| 6 | February 16, 2016 14:00 | February 17, 2016 10:30 | 20h 30m | 1,025 | 5,941 |
| 7 | February 17, 2016 11:45 | February 18, 2016 04:15 | 16h 30m | 940 | 4,842 |
| 8 | March 28, 2016 10:15 | March 28, 2016 14:00 | 3h 45m | 667 | 1,012 |
| 9 | February 4, 2016 04:30 | February 4, 2016 08:00 | 3h 30m | 606 | 1,898 |
| 10 | April 3, 2016 05:15 | April 3, 2016 09:30 | 4h 15m | 512 | 1,744 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 55 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Cattaraugus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 1.56 | 3.6 hrs | 1.47 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.19 | 2.2 hrs | 1.04 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
| Steuben Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Arcade - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Salamanca - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Little Valley - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 New York's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,980 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. Cattaraugus County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cattaraugus County, NY 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/new-york/cattaraugus-county