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2016 Franklin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Franklin County, NC went without power for an average of 22.4 hours, a total of 610K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 133rd 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 Franklin 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 12, 2016 23:30 | 4d 1h | 10,889 | 388K |
| 2 | January 22, 2016 19:15 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 2d 23h | 3,176 | 128K |
| 3 | July 8, 2016 23:45 | July 10, 2016 11:00 | 1d 11h | 2,173 | 18K |
| 4 | October 21, 2016 01:15 | October 21, 2016 09:45 | 8h 30m | 1,762 | 3,804 |
| 5 | June 29, 2016 23:00 | June 30, 2016 22:45 | 23h 45m | 1,660 | 4,955 |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 20:30 | February 25, 2016 23:00 | 1d 2h | 1,459 | 13K |
| 7 | April 28, 2016 22:45 | April 29, 2016 18:30 | 19h 45m | 1,365 | 5,670 |
| 8 | July 15, 2016 22:00 | July 16, 2016 14:30 | 16h 30m | 1,359 | 6,464 |
| 9 | February 3, 2016 16:15 | February 3, 2016 19:30 | 3h 15m | 1,191 | 1,370 |
| 10 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 23, 2016 18:30 | 7h 45m | 988 | 3,246 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 42 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Franklin 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2016 | 4.6 hrs | 1.75 | 79 min | 1.60 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Louisburg - (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 ÷ 27,296 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county