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2016 Iredell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Iredell County, NC went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 199K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 594th 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 Iredell 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 8, 2016 23:45 | July 11, 2016 11:15 | 2d 11h | 8,116 | 65K |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 16:30 | February 26, 2016 22:45 | 2d 6h | 3,264 | 25K |
| 3 | June 14, 2016 13:00 | June 15, 2016 05:15 | 16h 15m | 2,408 | 15K |
| 4 | June 17, 2016 18:45 | June 18, 2016 03:00 | 8h 15m | 1,742 | 3,922 |
| 5 | October 19, 2016 16:15 | October 20, 2016 03:15 | 11h | 1,501 | 774 |
| 6 | February 16, 2016 00:30 | February 16, 2016 20:30 | 20h | 1,395 | 1,595 |
| 7 | June 27, 2016 12:00 | June 28, 2016 21:45 | 1d 9h | 1,306 | 1,874 |
| 8 | July 16, 2016 00:45 | July 16, 2016 05:45 | 5h | 1,301 | 2,232 |
| 9 | October 8, 2016 11:15 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 6h 30m | 1,269 | 2,432 |
| 10 | December 13, 2016 10:45 | December 13, 2016 16:30 | 5h 45m | 1,139 | 2,581 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 87 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Iredell 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 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 |
| City of Statesville - (NC) | 2016 | 52 min | 0.76 | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 35,197 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. Iredell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iredell 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/iredell-county