County annual report · FIPS 37023
2016 Burke County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Burke County, NC went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 623rd 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 Burke 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 | February 24, 2016 13:45 | February 26, 2016 22:15 | 2d 8h | 3,932 | 45K |
| 2 | December 29, 2016 19:15 | December 30, 2016 05:30 | 10h 15m | 1,448 | 2,191 |
| 3 | February 16, 2016 05:45 | February 17, 2016 19:15 | 1d 13h | 1,272 | 9,232 |
| 4 | January 12, 2016 15:30 | January 12, 2016 19:00 | 3h 30m | 1,015 | 518 |
| 5 | January 4, 2016 17:00 | January 4, 2016 23:15 | 6h 15m | 1,013 | 525 |
| 6 | April 7, 2016 18:15 | April 8, 2016 11:30 | 17h 15m | 993 | 2,340 |
| 7 | May 19, 2016 00:45 | May 19, 2016 09:15 | 8h 30m | 985 | 1,630 |
| 8 | July 2, 2016 20:00 | July 2, 2016 20:45 | 45m | 965 | 242 |
| 9 | October 21, 2016 19:00 | October 21, 2016 23:00 | 4h | 905 | 869 |
| 10 | July 4, 2016 04:30 | July 4, 2016 07:45 | 3h 15m | 781 | 1,004 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 44 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Burke 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.14 | 47 min | 0.57 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountain Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Morganton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Drexel - (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 ÷ 19,746 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. Burke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke 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/burke-county