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2016 Ontario County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ontario County, NY went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 170K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 62 New York counties and 1261st 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 Ontario 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 | March 1, 2016 01:00 | March 1, 2016 06:00 | 5h | 6,548 | 17K |
| 2 | January 2, 2016 05:30 | January 2, 2016 08:45 | 3h 15m | 6,180 | 15K |
| 3 | March 8, 2016 16:45 | March 8, 2016 21:00 | 4h 15m | 3,271 | 4,141 |
| 4 | July 18, 2016 17:45 | July 19, 2016 01:30 | 7h 45m | 1,879 | 4,587 |
| 5 | February 11, 2016 20:15 | February 12, 2016 00:30 | 4h 15m | 1,872 | 2,873 |
| 6 | February 3, 2016 09:30 | February 3, 2016 21:45 | 12h 15m | 1,764 | 6,284 |
| 7 | July 25, 2016 12:45 | July 25, 2016 18:30 | 5h 45m | 1,705 | 4,733 |
| 8 | February 16, 2016 12:00 | February 18, 2016 15:45 | 2d 3h | 1,645 | 12K |
| 9 | August 13, 2016 20:30 | August 14, 2016 07:00 | 10h 30m | 1,473 | 1,676 |
| 10 | October 27, 2016 09:00 | October 27, 2016 15:00 | 6h | 1,328 | 4,626 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 82 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Ontario 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rochester Gas & Electric Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 75,985 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. Ontario County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ontario 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/ontario-county