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2016 Essex County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Essex County, NY went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 122K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 62 New York counties and 641st 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 Essex 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 27, 2016 22:00 | October 28, 2016 23:30 | 1d 1h | 9,139 | 28K |
| 2 | May 29, 2016 13:45 | May 30, 2016 10:45 | 21h | 2,435 | 6,484 |
| 3 | May 15, 2016 17:30 | May 15, 2016 23:00 | 5h 30m | 2,223 | 4,580 |
| 4 | June 28, 2016 20:00 | June 29, 2016 06:00 | 10h | 1,733 | 3,770 |
| 5 | June 5, 2016 15:45 | June 6, 2016 02:15 | 10h 30m | 1,518 | 5,474 |
| 6 | September 20, 2016 18:00 | September 20, 2016 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,034 | 357 |
| 7 | July 23, 2016 16:30 | July 24, 2016 05:30 | 13h | 976 | 2,705 |
| 8 | July 12, 2016 01:00 | July 12, 2016 06:45 | 5h 45m | 949 | 1,195 |
| 9 | June 15, 2016 18:15 | June 15, 2016 21:00 | 2h 45m | 932 | 470 |
| 10 | August 21, 2016 07:30 | August 21, 2016 08:30 | 1h | 860 | 860 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 57 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 Essex 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lake Placid Village, Inc - (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 ÷ 23,389 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county