County annual report · FIPS 37025
2016 Cabarrus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cabarrus County, NC went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 849th 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 Cabarrus 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 | June 7, 2016 01:00 | June 7, 2016 02:45 | 1h 45m | 3,261 | 3,364 |
| 2 | July 11, 2016 15:45 | July 12, 2016 20:15 | 1d 4h | 2,007 | 9,398 |
| 3 | July 9, 2016 00:45 | July 10, 2016 23:45 | 1d 23h | 1,786 | 11K |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 15:00 | February 26, 2016 14:15 | 1d 23h | 1,674 | 22K |
| 5 | September 28, 2016 20:15 | September 30, 2016 04:00 | 1d 7h | 1,631 | 10K |
| 6 | June 22, 2016 21:30 | June 23, 2016 09:00 | 11h 30m | 1,611 | 3,483 |
| 7 | May 19, 2016 11:15 | May 19, 2016 16:30 | 5h 15m | 1,527 | 450 |
| 8 | May 30, 2016 11:45 | May 30, 2016 14:45 | 3h | 1,469 | 1,500 |
| 9 | July 7, 2016 21:15 | July 8, 2016 07:00 | 9h 45m | 1,427 | 2,185 |
| 10 | June 25, 2016 11:00 | June 25, 2016 15:45 | 4h 45m | 1,183 | 2,023 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 60 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 Cabarrus 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.06 | 66 min | 0.73 |
| City of Concord - (NC) | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 2.27 | 62 min | 1.10 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 36,290 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. Cabarrus County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cabarrus 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/cabarrus-county