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2016 Erie County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Erie County, NY went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 895K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 62 New York counties and 1446th 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 Erie 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 | August 20, 2016 18:30 | August 21, 2016 04:00 | 9h 30m | 17,054 | 59K |
| 2 | August 26, 2016 13:00 | August 26, 2016 22:15 | 9h 15m | 10,217 | 5,382 |
| 3 | November 20, 2016 09:00 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 1d 3h | 9,269 | 25K |
| 4 | December 9, 2016 22:30 | December 10, 2016 13:45 | 15h 15m | 8,858 | 15K |
| 5 | July 23, 2016 08:45 | July 23, 2016 22:30 | 13h 45m | 8,821 | 34K |
| 6 | June 21, 2016 03:00 | June 21, 2016 03:15 | 15m | 7,044 | 1,761 |
| 7 | June 21, 2016 04:00 | June 21, 2016 04:15 | 15m | 6,978 | 1,745 |
| 8 | June 17, 2016 22:15 | June 18, 2016 04:45 | 6h 30m | 6,088 | 19K |
| 9 | August 9, 2016 13:30 | August 11, 2016 08:00 | 1d 18h | 5,296 | 41K |
| 10 | December 26, 2016 15:30 | December 28, 2016 03:15 | 1d 11h | 5,008 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 232 reached 100+ customers, 71 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 Erie 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Arcade - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Akron - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Springville - (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 ÷ 521,085 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county