County annual report · FIPS 37041
2016 Chowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chowan County, NC went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1064th 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 Chowan 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 | September 3, 2016 01:45 | September 3, 2016 09:00 | 7h 15m | 1,778 | 3,102 |
| 2 | October 9, 2016 00:30 | October 13, 2016 20:45 | 4d 20h | 1,558 | 25K |
| 3 | January 14, 2016 23:45 | January 15, 2016 03:45 | 4h | 575 | 2,300 |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 16:45 | February 24, 2016 22:00 | 5h 15m | 198 | 706 |
| 5 | March 21, 2016 13:15 | March 21, 2016 14:45 | 1h 30m | 197 | 156 |
| 6 | February 16, 2016 14:30 | February 16, 2016 15:30 | 1h | 149 | 134 |
| 7 | May 26, 2016 14:15 | May 26, 2016 17:00 | 2h 45m | 121 | 242 |
| 8 | February 2, 2016 03:45 | February 2, 2016 12:45 | 9h | 106 | 470 |
| 9 | November 20, 2016 00:00 | November 20, 2016 00:45 | 45m | 95 | 60 |
| 10 | June 4, 2016 22:30 | June 5, 2016 02:00 | 3h 30m | 41 | 86 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 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 Chowan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 8.9 hrs | 2.08 | 2.2 hrs | 1.36 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Albemarle Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Edenton - (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 ÷ 12,047 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. Chowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chowan 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/chowan-county