County annual report · FIPS 36103
2016 Suffolk County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Suffolk County, NY went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 62 New York counties and 1128th 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 Suffolk 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 | February 14, 2016 12:00 | February 28, 2016 03:30 | 13d 15h | 20,031 | 320K |
| 2 | February 5, 2016 10:30 | February 9, 2016 04:45 | 3d 18h | 16,544 | 134K |
| 3 | April 2, 2016 12:45 | April 9, 2016 08:15 | 6d 19h | 14,255 | 67K |
| 4 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | December 8, 2016 01:30 | 16d 11h | 7,150 | 52K |
| 5 | June 27, 2016 10:15 | June 28, 2016 06:30 | 20h 15m | 7,067 | 19K |
| 6 | July 1, 2016 09:15 | July 9, 2016 06:30 | 7d 21h | 6,708 | 57K |
| 7 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 23, 2016 08:30 | 10d 11h | 6,492 | 109K |
| 8 | July 12, 2016 10:00 | July 30, 2016 07:00 | 17d 21h | 6,354 | 119K |
| 9 | December 24, 2016 12:30 | December 25, 2016 19:30 | 1d 7h | 6,278 | 20K |
| 10 | October 21, 2016 04:00 | November 1, 2016 06:15 | 11d 2h | 6,168 | 40K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 165 reached 100+ customers, 100 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Suffolk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Island Power Authority | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fishers Island Utility Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Greenport - (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 ÷ 657,677 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. Suffolk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Suffolk 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/new-york/suffolk-county