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2016 Tompkins County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Tompkins County, NY went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 62 New York counties and 1430th 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 Tompkins 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 8, 2016 13:15 | June 8, 2016 15:15 | 2h | 2,909 | 5,495 |
| 2 | January 26, 2016 10:15 | January 26, 2016 11:30 | 1h 15m | 2,541 | 3,176 |
| 3 | March 27, 2016 06:15 | March 27, 2016 10:30 | 4h 15m | 1,823 | 7,548 |
| 4 | October 27, 2016 10:15 | October 27, 2016 20:15 | 10h | 1,787 | 2,831 |
| 5 | December 18, 2016 05:00 | December 18, 2016 06:30 | 1h 30m | 1,787 | 2,681 |
| 6 | February 27, 2016 20:00 | February 27, 2016 23:00 | 3h | 1,768 | 4,314 |
| 7 | August 10, 2016 05:45 | August 10, 2016 17:45 | 12h | 1,705 | 4,433 |
| 8 | February 3, 2016 13:00 | February 4, 2016 01:45 | 12h 45m | 1,579 | 5,394 |
| 9 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | November 22, 2016 02:15 | 12h 15m | 1,258 | 2,301 |
| 10 | May 26, 2016 04:15 | May 26, 2016 08:00 | 3h 45m | 1,217 | 4,564 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 62 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Tompkins 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 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Groton - (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 ÷ 63,720 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. Tompkins County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tompkins 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/tompkins-county