County annual report · FIPS 37109
2016 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 105K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 774th 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 Lincoln 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 | March 28, 2016 23:15 | March 29, 2016 07:00 | 7h 45m | 4,628 | 17K |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 17:00 | February 26, 2016 22:00 | 2d 5h | 1,915 | 23K |
| 3 | July 9, 2016 00:15 | July 11, 2016 15:15 | 2d 15h | 1,746 | 15K |
| 4 | April 27, 2016 10:45 | April 27, 2016 20:00 | 9h 15m | 1,240 | 4,466 |
| 5 | March 15, 2016 14:00 | March 15, 2016 18:45 | 4h 45m | 1,191 | 3,659 |
| 6 | March 29, 2016 19:30 | March 29, 2016 22:15 | 2h 45m | 969 | 489 |
| 7 | July 27, 2016 01:30 | July 27, 2016 02:30 | 1h | 926 | 815 |
| 8 | March 19, 2016 08:45 | March 19, 2016 19:15 | 10h 30m | 894 | 4,846 |
| 9 | January 3, 2016 19:15 | January 3, 2016 20:15 | 1h | 810 | 609 |
| 10 | June 16, 2016 05:00 | June 16, 2016 10:45 | 5h 45m | 724 | 1,279 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 44 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.14 | 47 min | 0.57 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lincolnton - (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 ÷ 25,563 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county