County annual report · FIPS 36115
2016 Washington County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Washington County, NY went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 222K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 62 New York counties and 460th 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 Washington 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 | October 27, 2016 20:15 | October 29, 2016 16:15 | 1d 20h | 4,828 | 38K |
| 2 | August 13, 2016 14:45 | August 15, 2016 18:30 | 2d 3h | 3,161 | 46K |
| 3 | May 15, 2016 20:30 | May 16, 2016 06:15 | 9h 45m | 2,922 | 6,685 |
| 4 | September 12, 2016 21:45 | September 13, 2016 06:30 | 8h 45m | 2,016 | 7,387 |
| 5 | February 29, 2016 21:00 | March 2, 2016 09:15 | 1d 12h | 1,737 | 8,605 |
| 6 | September 15, 2016 13:15 | September 16, 2016 11:15 | 22h | 1,603 | 870 |
| 7 | July 30, 2016 07:45 | July 30, 2016 16:45 | 9h | 1,589 | 3,095 |
| 8 | January 17, 2016 19:30 | January 18, 2016 01:15 | 5h 45m | 1,563 | 2,943 |
| 9 | July 1, 2016 23:00 | July 2, 2016 14:30 | 15h 30m | 1,411 | 1,505 |
| 10 | December 18, 2016 16:00 | December 18, 2016 16:15 | 15m | 1,354 | 339 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 92 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 Washington 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 ÷ 29,152 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county