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2016 Jackson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Jackson County, NC went without power for an average of - hours, a total of 174K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours).
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
No loaded years to plot yet.
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Jackson 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 1, 2016 14:45 | October 1, 2016 19:00 | 4h 15m | 2,680 | 4,397 |
| 2 | July 9, 2016 00:00 | July 11, 2016 00:30 | 2d | 2,460 | 48K |
| 3 | November 29, 2016 00:00 | November 29, 2016 23:45 | 23h 45m | 2,155 | 7,065 |
| 4 | October 20, 2016 15:45 | October 20, 2016 16:45 | 1h | 2,143 | 2,143 |
| 5 | October 20, 2016 18:15 | October 20, 2016 18:45 | 30m | 1,785 | 892 |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 04:30 | February 25, 2016 22:45 | 1d 18h | 1,772 | 11K |
| 7 | April 7, 2016 05:00 | April 8, 2016 04:30 | 23h 30m | 1,663 | 3,859 |
| 8 | January 22, 2016 10:45 | January 24, 2016 01:45 | 1d 15h | 1,626 | 14K |
| 9 | August 17, 2016 14:15 | August 19, 2016 03:45 | 1d 13h | 1,383 | 2,559 |
| 10 | September 29, 2016 07:30 | September 29, 2016 09:15 | 1h 45m | 1,354 | 2,370 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 63 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Jackson 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 6.6 hrs | 3.05 | 6.6 hrs | 3.05 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Highlands - (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 ÷ modeled 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county