County annual report · FIPS 37117
2016 Martin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Martin County, NC went without power for an average of 15.2 hours, a total of 202K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 211th 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 Martin 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 23:00 | October 12, 2016 22:30 | 3d 23h | 4,801 | 148K |
| 2 | June 3, 2016 05:00 | June 3, 2016 06:45 | 1h 45m | 3,482 | 4,354 |
| 3 | November 9, 2016 12:30 | November 10, 2016 04:45 | 16h 15m | 1,908 | 28K |
| 4 | August 22, 2016 01:00 | August 22, 2016 05:45 | 4h 45m | 1,192 | 902 |
| 5 | July 26, 2016 03:00 | July 26, 2016 13:30 | 10h 30m | 785 | 1,318 |
| 6 | July 8, 2016 15:30 | July 8, 2016 17:15 | 1h 45m | 689 | 521 |
| 7 | July 9, 2016 00:30 | July 10, 2016 00:45 | 1d | 621 | 5,803 |
| 8 | July 28, 2016 21:15 | July 28, 2016 21:30 | 15m | 522 | 131 |
| 9 | September 30, 2016 14:30 | September 30, 2016 15:00 | 30m | 520 | 260 |
| 10 | August 19, 2016 14:45 | August 19, 2016 16:30 | 1h 45m | 449 | 113 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 30 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Martin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2016 | 9.1 hrs | 2.36 | 4.6 hrs | 2.04 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 6.5 hrs | 2.14 | 6.5 hrs | 2.14 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robersonville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hamilton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oak City - (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 ÷ 13,275 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county