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2016 Herkimer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Herkimer County, NY went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 294K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 62 New York counties and 327th 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 Herkimer 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 13, 2016 12:30 | August 16, 2016 00:15 | 2d 11h | 7,716 | 47K |
| 2 | January 10, 2016 10:30 | January 12, 2016 12:45 | 2d 2h | 4,156 | 68K |
| 3 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 13, 2016 10:15 | 13h 30m | 3,818 | 23K |
| 4 | June 1, 2016 07:00 | June 1, 2016 23:45 | 16h 45m | 3,806 | 4,943 |
| 5 | July 1, 2016 17:30 | July 1, 2016 18:00 | 30m | 3,803 | 957 |
| 6 | May 27, 2016 18:45 | May 27, 2016 21:45 | 3h | 3,782 | 9,456 |
| 7 | December 23, 2016 04:45 | December 23, 2016 06:30 | 1h 45m | 3,779 | 6,613 |
| 8 | October 6, 2016 18:30 | October 7, 2016 01:45 | 7h 15m | 3,751 | 9,541 |
| 9 | February 14, 2016 10:00 | February 14, 2016 16:00 | 6h | 3,737 | 7,244 |
| 10 | January 26, 2016 17:15 | January 27, 2016 01:00 | 7h 45m | 3,657 | 28K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 68 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Herkimer 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otsego Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mohawk Municipal Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Frankfort - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Ilion - (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 ÷ 27,865 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. Herkimer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Herkimer 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/herkimer-county