County annual report · FIPS 37115
2016 Madison County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Madison County, NC went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 420th 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 Madison 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 | April 1, 2016 04:00 | April 1, 2016 19:15 | 15h 15m | 554 | 7,869 |
| 2 | June 4, 2016 00:30 | June 4, 2016 17:00 | 16h 30m | 553 | 7,429 |
| 3 | June 6, 2016 18:15 | June 6, 2016 21:15 | 3h | 531 | 798 |
| 4 | July 30, 2016 19:00 | July 30, 2016 22:30 | 3h 30m | 122 | 362 |
| 5 | November 29, 2016 00:45 | November 29, 2016 17:45 | 17h | 65 | 802 |
| 6 | May 31, 2016 21:15 | June 1, 2016 01:15 | 4h | 45 | 170 |
| 7 | August 12, 2016 02:15 | August 12, 2016 05:45 | 3h 30m | 44 | 154 |
| 8 | August 29, 2016 12:15 | August 29, 2016 14:45 | 2h 30m | 44 | 109 |
| 9 | April 2, 2016 19:00 | April 2, 2016 21:30 | 2h 30m | 42 | 105 |
| 10 | June 22, 2016 17:00 | June 22, 2016 18:45 | 1h 45m | 37 | 59 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Madison 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 6.6 hrs | 3.05 | 6.6 hrs | 3.05 |
| French Broad Elec 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 ÷ 2,231 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. Madison County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Madison 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/madison-county