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2016 Edgecombe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Edgecombe County, NC went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 88K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 712th 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 Edgecombe 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 | July 28, 2016 23:00 | July 29, 2016 00:45 | 1h 45m | 1,391 | 1,739 |
| 2 | August 17, 2016 22:15 | August 18, 2016 02:15 | 4h | 1,388 | 2,433 |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 16, 2016 20:15 | 7d 21h | 1,378 | 35K |
| 4 | January 19, 2016 07:15 | January 19, 2016 11:15 | 4h | 1,056 | 3,615 |
| 5 | July 20, 2016 00:30 | July 20, 2016 09:30 | 9h | 691 | 4,954 |
| 6 | January 22, 2016 20:30 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 2d 21h | 689 | 28K |
| 7 | January 3, 2016 03:30 | January 3, 2016 07:30 | 4h | 351 | 1,189 |
| 8 | July 8, 2016 23:30 | July 10, 2016 00:15 | 1d | 312 | 3,595 |
| 9 | February 5, 2016 13:00 | February 5, 2016 17:45 | 4h 45m | 274 | 549 |
| 10 | June 1, 2016 05:15 | June 1, 2016 07:45 | 2h 30m | 223 | 558 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 19 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Edgecombe 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 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2016 | 9.1 hrs | 2.36 | 4.6 hrs | 2.04 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.36 | 26 min | 0.45 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.99 | 55 min | 1.47 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of MacClesfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pinetops - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Tarboro - (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 ÷ 19,560 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. Edgecombe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Edgecombe 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/edgecombe-county