County annual report · FIPS 37051
2016 Cumberland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cumberland County, NC went without power for an average of 22.0 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 134th 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 Cumberland 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 22, 2016 08:45 | 13d 10h | 30,039 | 1.6M |
| 2 | January 22, 2016 16:30 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 3d 1h | 9,536 | 169K |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 11:30 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 6h 15m | 5,684 | 9,993 |
| 4 | July 11, 2016 13:30 | July 11, 2016 14:45 | 1h 15m | 3,984 | 3,158 |
| 5 | May 19, 2016 12:00 | May 19, 2016 16:15 | 4h 15m | 3,896 | 4,420 |
| 6 | August 11, 2016 12:30 | August 11, 2016 14:15 | 1h 45m | 3,855 | 1,928 |
| 7 | September 28, 2016 12:30 | September 30, 2016 03:30 | 1d 15h | 3,619 | 7,843 |
| 8 | July 3, 2016 11:30 | July 5, 2016 16:00 | 2d 4h | 3,565 | 121K |
| 9 | August 12, 2016 02:45 | August 12, 2016 08:00 | 5h 15m | 2,157 | 7,018 |
| 10 | June 29, 2016 16:00 | June 29, 2016 19:15 | 3h 15m | 2,119 | 1,829 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 113 reached 100+ customers, 26 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cumberland 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 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 60.3 hrs | 3.58 | 2.2 hrs | 1.50 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fayetteville Public Works Commission | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 93,841 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county