County annual report · FIPS 39035
2016 Cuyahoga County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cuyahoga County, OH went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (Ohio average 2.9 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 870th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cuyahoga 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 11, 2016 20:30 | August 12, 2016 12:00 | 15h 30m | 58,546 | 298K |
| 2 | August 3, 2016 11:45 | August 11, 2016 14:30 | 8d 2h | 26,895 | 478K |
| 3 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | November 22, 2016 09:45 | 19h 45m | 23,862 | 26K |
| 4 | August 12, 2016 21:00 | August 24, 2016 06:45 | 11d 9h | 15,255 | 178K |
| 5 | November 17, 2016 13:00 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 3d 23h | 15,232 | 73K |
| 6 | February 19, 2016 11:45 | February 23, 2016 08:45 | 3d 21h | 9,942 | 84K |
| 7 | October 15, 2016 15:45 | November 5, 2016 09:45 | 20d 18h | 9,394 | 150K |
| 8 | May 15, 2016 17:45 | May 18, 2016 03:15 | 2d 9h | 8,740 | 9,494 |
| 9 | June 15, 2016 06:30 | June 20, 2016 22:45 | 5d 16h | 8,643 | 22K |
| 10 | January 31, 2016 14:30 | February 2, 2016 03:45 | 1d 13h | 7,680 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 116 reached 100+ customers, 67 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Cuyahoga 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Edison Co | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.01 | 1.5 hrs | 0.91 |
| Cleveland Electric Illum Co | 2016 | 3.6 hrs | 1.33 | 1.9 hrs | 1.10 |
| City of Cleveland - (OH) | 2016 | 17 min | 0.15 | - | - |
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 Ohio's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 602,248 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. Cuyahoga County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cuyahoga County, OH 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/ohio/cuyahoga-county