County annual report · FIPS 37055
2016 Dare County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dare County, NC went without power for an average of 37.3 hours, a total of 881K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 72nd 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 Dare 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 9, 2016 00:45 | October 20, 2016 10:00 | 11d 9h | 20,894 | 653K |
| 2 | September 3, 2016 00:00 | September 5, 2016 23:45 | 2d 23h | 15,648 | 191K |
| 3 | October 23, 2016 15:45 | October 23, 2016 16:00 | 15m | 3,261 | 815 |
| 4 | July 29, 2016 08:45 | July 29, 2016 11:30 | 2h 45m | 3,056 | 2,302 |
| 5 | July 30, 2016 19:45 | July 31, 2016 03:30 | 7h 45m | 2,534 | 1,147 |
| 6 | February 18, 2016 14:00 | February 18, 2016 20:30 | 6h 30m | 1,324 | 1,011 |
| 7 | June 17, 2016 07:15 | June 17, 2016 14:30 | 7h 15m | 1,111 | 5,897 |
| 8 | July 17, 2016 07:15 | July 17, 2016 18:15 | 11h | 736 | 1,484 |
| 9 | July 1, 2016 16:15 | July 1, 2016 17:45 | 1h 30m | 634 | 625 |
| 10 | February 16, 2016 15:30 | February 16, 2016 20:30 | 5h | 609 | 1,047 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 34 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Dare 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 7.9 hrs | 2.11 | 4.5 hrs | 1.72 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cape Hatteras Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,623 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. Dare County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dare 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/dare-county