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2016 Nowata County, OK Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Nowata County, OK went without power for an average of 18.5 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Oklahoma average 4.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 74 Oklahoma counties and 160th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with OK, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oklahoma customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Nowata 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 | April 27, 2016 04:00 | April 27, 2016 23:30 | 19h 30m | 3,742 | 38K |
| 2 | August 25, 2016 22:45 | August 26, 2016 09:30 | 10h 45m | 1,372 | 2,490 |
| 3 | January 29, 2016 15:45 | January 29, 2016 16:30 | 45m | 1,327 | 332 |
| 4 | May 25, 2016 00:30 | May 25, 2016 12:00 | 11h 30m | 1,093 | 2,057 |
| 5 | January 14, 2016 15:15 | January 14, 2016 20:15 | 5h | 578 | 156 |
| 6 | February 19, 2016 15:00 | February 19, 2016 15:30 | 30m | 344 | 172 |
| 7 | August 8, 2016 08:15 | August 8, 2016 14:45 | 6h 30m | 204 | 279 |
| 8 | June 18, 2016 21:00 | June 18, 2016 23:30 | 2h 30m | 177 | 267 |
| 9 | July 12, 2016 14:15 | July 12, 2016 17:30 | 3h 15m | 156 | 72 |
| 10 | May 14, 2016 03:15 | May 14, 2016 08:45 | 5h 30m | 146 | 690 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Nowata 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of Oklahoma | 2016 | 4.9 hrs | 1.42 | 1.7 hrs | 1.14 |
| Verdigris Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2013 | 7.1 hrs | 2.35 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 |
| Northeast Oklahoma Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of South Coffeyville - (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Oklahoma's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,678 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. Nowata County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nowata County, OK 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/oklahoma/nowata-county