County annual report · FIPS 36063
2016 Niagara County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Niagara County, NY went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 163K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 62 New York counties and 1525th 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 Niagara 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 | June 16, 2016 15:45 | June 16, 2016 18:45 | 3h | 8,852 | 5,416 |
| 2 | August 20, 2016 16:30 | August 21, 2016 00:15 | 7h 45m | 7,544 | 26K |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 01:30 | July 14, 2016 20:15 | 18h 45m | 5,281 | 16K |
| 4 | September 10, 2016 19:30 | September 11, 2016 16:15 | 20h 45m | 4,414 | 9,315 |
| 5 | August 28, 2016 19:30 | August 29, 2016 09:00 | 13h 30m | 3,594 | 9,103 |
| 6 | March 22, 2016 20:45 | March 22, 2016 23:15 | 2h 30m | 2,938 | 3,675 |
| 7 | May 11, 2016 10:30 | May 11, 2016 12:45 | 2h 15m | 2,864 | 4,440 |
| 8 | April 30, 2016 01:15 | April 30, 2016 06:30 | 5h 15m | 2,653 | 4,899 |
| 9 | August 13, 2016 12:30 | August 14, 2016 06:15 | 17h 45m | 2,503 | 9,681 |
| 10 | October 10, 2016 00:15 | October 10, 2016 03:30 | 3h 15m | 2,391 | 695 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 68 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Niagara 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 106,178 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. Niagara County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Niagara 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/niagara-county