County annual report · FIPS 37103
2016 Jones County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Jones County, NC went without power for an average of 41.8 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 66th 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 Jones 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 15, 2016 12:45 | 6d 14h | 3,457 | 84K |
| 2 | July 9, 2016 02:00 | July 9, 2016 14:00 | 12h | 769 | 2,754 |
| 3 | July 19, 2016 20:30 | July 20, 2016 04:15 | 7h 45m | 587 | 995 |
| 4 | December 11, 2016 13:15 | December 11, 2016 14:00 | 45m | 560 | 420 |
| 5 | July 8, 2016 11:30 | July 8, 2016 14:30 | 3h | 545 | 1,284 |
| 6 | January 15, 2016 21:30 | January 16, 2016 01:30 | 4h | 531 | 667 |
| 7 | May 5, 2016 15:15 | May 5, 2016 15:30 | 15m | 528 | 132 |
| 8 | May 10, 2016 20:00 | May 10, 2016 20:15 | 15m | 528 | 132 |
| 9 | August 1, 2016 19:45 | August 1, 2016 21:15 | 1h 30m | 528 | 313 |
| 10 | February 24, 2016 18:00 | February 25, 2016 00:15 | 6h 15m | 283 | 433 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Jones 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 |
| City of New Bern - (NC) | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.17 | 7 min | 0.11 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carteret-Craven El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,265 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. Jones County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jones 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/jones-county