County annual report · FIPS 37081
2016 Guilford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Guilford County, NC went without power for an average of 12.8 hours, a total of 536K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 264th 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 Guilford 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 | February 24, 2016 13:30 | February 27, 2016 04:00 | 2d 14h | 8,692 | 60K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 11, 2016 01:00 | 2d 2h | 8,590 | 35K |
| 3 | August 5, 2016 06:30 | August 7, 2016 00:00 | 1d 17h | 7,210 | 34K |
| 4 | December 19, 2016 13:30 | December 20, 2016 04:30 | 15h | 6,769 | 2,213 |
| 5 | May 26, 2016 10:45 | May 26, 2016 12:00 | 1h 15m | 5,327 | 5,455 |
| 6 | May 21, 2016 19:45 | May 22, 2016 22:15 | 1d 2h | 4,298 | 16K |
| 7 | November 29, 2016 12:45 | November 30, 2016 04:15 | 15h 30m | 4,148 | 3,068 |
| 8 | August 17, 2016 12:15 | August 19, 2016 09:30 | 1d 21h | 4,130 | 30K |
| 9 | July 8, 2016 11:30 | July 10, 2016 06:30 | 1d 19h | 4,058 | 16K |
| 10 | August 21, 2016 10:30 | August 21, 2016 10:45 | 15m | 3,929 | 982 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 164 reached 100+ customers, 42 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 Guilford 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 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Town of High Point | 2016 | 2.1 hrs | 1.38 | 78 min | 0.93 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 41,756 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. Guilford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Guilford 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/guilford-county