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2016 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 51.5 hours, a total of 673K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 48th 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 Lee 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 14, 2016 22:00 | 5d 23h | 13,468 | 582K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 12:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 5h 45m | 4,749 | 6,766 |
| 3 | July 8, 2016 21:45 | July 9, 2016 13:30 | 15h 45m | 4,392 | 4,409 |
| 4 | September 14, 2016 23:30 | September 15, 2016 01:00 | 1h 30m | 1,963 | 493 |
| 5 | February 22, 2016 20:15 | February 22, 2016 22:45 | 2h 30m | 1,910 | 3,114 |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 19:30 | February 25, 2016 21:30 | 1d 2h | 1,843 | 5,471 |
| 7 | September 1, 2016 22:00 | September 2, 2016 06:45 | 8h 45m | 1,827 | 5,302 |
| 8 | October 30, 2016 16:45 | October 30, 2016 18:30 | 1h 45m | 1,475 | 1,106 |
| 9 | August 21, 2016 23:45 | August 22, 2016 14:00 | 14h 15m | 1,448 | 5,483 |
| 10 | July 3, 2016 02:00 | July 3, 2016 07:30 | 5h 30m | 1,253 | 3,406 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 57 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Lee 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 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2016 | 36.0 hrs | - | 12.9 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 13,067 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county