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2016 Orleans County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orleans County, NY went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 62 New York counties and 1622nd 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 Orleans 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 16, 2016 21:15 | August 17, 2016 07:30 | 10h 15m | 1,424 | 1,920 |
| 2 | February 29, 2016 21:45 | March 1, 2016 06:00 | 8h 15m | 1,344 | 1,089 |
| 3 | May 4, 2016 13:15 | May 4, 2016 15:15 | 2h | 1,053 | 1,317 |
| 4 | March 16, 2016 17:45 | March 16, 2016 20:15 | 2h 30m | 893 | 1,725 |
| 5 | February 13, 2016 10:45 | February 14, 2016 04:00 | 17h 15m | 742 | 2,194 |
| 6 | June 12, 2016 22:00 | June 13, 2016 08:00 | 10h | 740 | 1,340 |
| 7 | August 13, 2016 18:15 | August 13, 2016 23:45 | 5h 30m | 724 | 1,044 |
| 8 | May 2, 2016 11:30 | May 2, 2016 14:45 | 3h 15m | 686 | 1,031 |
| 9 | September 17, 2016 23:30 | September 18, 2016 17:15 | 17h 45m | 417 | 1,584 |
| 10 | August 20, 2016 21:00 | August 21, 2016 02:30 | 5h 30m | 368 | 1,212 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 27 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Orleans 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 |
| Village of Holley - (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 ÷ 20,376 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. Orleans County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orleans 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/orleans-county