County annual report · FIPS 39043
2016 Erie County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Erie County, OH went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (Ohio average 2.9 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1260th 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 Erie 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 28, 2016 20:30 | August 30, 2016 18:30 | 1d 22h | 6,981 | 22K |
| 2 | April 9, 2016 06:30 | April 10, 2016 04:15 | 21h 45m | 2,995 | 9,507 |
| 3 | November 2, 2016 14:45 | November 2, 2016 18:15 | 3h 30m | 2,942 | 5,152 |
| 4 | October 29, 2016 04:30 | October 29, 2016 18:30 | 14h | 2,616 | 4,470 |
| 5 | June 7, 2016 10:45 | June 7, 2016 18:15 | 7h 30m | 1,907 | 1,292 |
| 6 | December 18, 2016 03:00 | December 19, 2016 03:15 | 1d | 1,792 | 6,916 |
| 7 | June 5, 2016 18:00 | June 7, 2016 01:30 | 1d 7h | 1,611 | 6,861 |
| 8 | March 16, 2016 16:45 | March 17, 2016 00:00 | 7h 15m | 1,568 | 2,038 |
| 9 | July 24, 2016 00:15 | July 24, 2016 07:45 | 7h 30m | 1,491 | 2,071 |
| 10 | January 26, 2016 13:00 | January 26, 2016 15:00 | 2h | 1,468 | 1,989 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 66 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 Erie 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 |
| Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 89 min | 1.05 | 74 min | 0.97 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2016 | 81 min | - | 81 min | - |
| Village of Milan - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 50,780 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county