County annual report · FIPS 37107
2016 Lenoir County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lenoir County, NC went without power for an average of 39.7 hours, a total of 601K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 71st 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 Lenoir 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 20, 2016 00:00 | 11d 1h | 10,490 | 559K |
| 2 | May 29, 2016 07:15 | May 29, 2016 09:00 | 1h 45m | 1,915 | 2,873 |
| 3 | February 24, 2016 18:45 | February 25, 2016 07:45 | 13h | 1,737 | 3,294 |
| 4 | July 19, 2016 16:45 | July 19, 2016 19:15 | 2h 30m | 1,479 | 792 |
| 5 | December 29, 2016 13:15 | December 29, 2016 19:45 | 6h 30m | 1,200 | 1,780 |
| 6 | September 22, 2016 15:45 | September 22, 2016 18:30 | 2h 45m | 1,110 | 1,752 |
| 7 | September 2, 2016 23:45 | September 3, 2016 20:30 | 20h 45m | 1,106 | 10K |
| 8 | December 28, 2016 18:45 | December 29, 2016 00:15 | 5h 30m | 1,031 | 2,152 |
| 9 | October 4, 2016 04:45 | October 4, 2016 12:15 | 7h 30m | 862 | 3,589 |
| 10 | July 7, 2016 22:15 | July 8, 2016 09:15 | 11h | 817 | 3,263 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 32 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Lenoir 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kinston - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of La Grange - (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 ÷ 15,148 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. Lenoir County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lenoir 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/lenoir-county