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2016 Halifax County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Halifax County, NC went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 941st 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 Halifax 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 11, 2016 21:15 | 2d 22h | 3,807 | 58K |
| 2 | September 22, 2016 07:15 | September 22, 2016 10:45 | 3h 30m | 1,365 | 3,322 |
| 3 | June 17, 2016 04:30 | June 17, 2016 07:15 | 2h 45m | 1,335 | 2,125 |
| 4 | August 17, 2016 23:45 | August 18, 2016 13:00 | 13h 15m | 1,043 | 1,070 |
| 5 | December 25, 2016 08:15 | December 25, 2016 17:00 | 8h 45m | 775 | 2,661 |
| 6 | July 8, 2016 21:15 | July 10, 2016 00:15 | 1d 3h | 626 | 4,475 |
| 7 | January 22, 2016 23:45 | January 24, 2016 04:30 | 1d 4h | 505 | 5,257 |
| 8 | November 24, 2016 18:45 | November 24, 2016 21:00 | 2h 15m | 504 | 637 |
| 9 | October 16, 2016 14:45 | October 16, 2016 16:00 | 1h 15m | 462 | 453 |
| 10 | August 17, 2016 06:15 | August 17, 2016 07:45 | 1h 30m | 427 | 534 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 26 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 Halifax 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 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 8.9 hrs | 2.08 | 2.2 hrs | 1.36 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 6.5 hrs | 2.14 | 6.5 hrs | 2.14 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Enfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hobgood | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Scotland Neck - (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 ÷ 28,826 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. Halifax County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Halifax 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/halifax-county