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2016 McDowell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in McDowell County, NC went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 434th 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 McDowell 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 | February 16, 2016 04:45 | February 17, 2016 08:45 | 1d 4h | 3,341 | 32K |
| 2 | July 5, 2016 18:30 | July 6, 2016 20:15 | 1d 1h | 2,351 | 18K |
| 3 | July 8, 2016 19:30 | July 9, 2016 15:00 | 19h 30m | 1,232 | 3,136 |
| 4 | August 3, 2016 20:00 | August 4, 2016 04:45 | 8h 45m | 1,168 | 2,013 |
| 5 | October 21, 2016 16:15 | October 21, 2016 23:30 | 7h 15m | 835 | 1,858 |
| 6 | June 30, 2016 06:30 | June 30, 2016 06:45 | 15m | 796 | 199 |
| 7 | January 12, 2016 19:30 | January 13, 2016 06:15 | 10h 45m | 793 | 3,460 |
| 8 | July 21, 2016 05:45 | July 21, 2016 06:30 | 45m | 786 | 587 |
| 9 | June 27, 2016 20:15 | June 28, 2016 21:15 | 1d 1h | 724 | 2,193 |
| 10 | July 30, 2016 20:00 | July 31, 2016 02:15 | 6h 15m | 642 | 3,531 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 36 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 McDowell 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.14 | 47 min | 0.57 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 12,442 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county