County annual report · FIPS 37013
2016 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 14.2 hours, a total of 280K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 230th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort 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 8, 2016 22:30 | October 13, 2016 01:15 | 4d 2h | 4,712 | 251K |
| 2 | August 1, 2016 05:45 | August 1, 2016 09:15 | 3h 30m | 1,546 | 2,325 |
| 3 | June 10, 2016 16:00 | June 11, 2016 00:45 | 8h 45m | 822 | 3,744 |
| 4 | December 3, 2016 19:00 | December 4, 2016 01:00 | 6h | 765 | 583 |
| 5 | October 21, 2016 23:00 | October 22, 2016 08:45 | 9h 45m | 575 | 1,671 |
| 6 | September 3, 2016 01:30 | September 4, 2016 00:15 | 22h 45m | 568 | 4,872 |
| 7 | November 4, 2016 10:45 | November 4, 2016 13:00 | 2h 15m | 523 | 654 |
| 8 | October 17, 2016 17:15 | October 17, 2016 21:15 | 4h | 500 | 1,923 |
| 9 | November 14, 2016 08:15 | November 14, 2016 13:15 | 5h | 498 | 1,228 |
| 10 | May 2, 2016 22:15 | May 3, 2016 01:45 | 3h 30m | 432 | 1,471 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 20 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Beaufort 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2016 | 63.5 hrs | 3.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.63 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2016 | 9.1 hrs | 2.36 | 4.6 hrs | 2.04 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 7.9 hrs | 2.11 | 4.5 hrs | 1.72 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 North Carolina's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC 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/north-carolina/beaufort-county