County annual report · FIPS 37119
2016 Mecklenburg County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Mecklenburg County, NC went without power for an average of 100.4 hours, a total of 2.8M customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 19th 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 Mecklenburg 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 | July 5, 2016 08:00 | July 19, 2016 09:30 | 14d 1h | 50,103 | 1.2M |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 11:00 | February 28, 2016 04:00 | 3d 17h | 20,422 | 297K |
| 3 | October 4, 2016 12:00 | October 5, 2016 07:45 | 19h 45m | 10,663 | 7,280 |
| 4 | October 6, 2016 12:45 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 2d 5h | 10,019 | 47K |
| 5 | June 14, 2016 11:30 | June 17, 2016 11:30 | 3d | 9,569 | 83K |
| 6 | February 3, 2016 10:45 | February 4, 2016 09:45 | 23h | 9,517 | 26K |
| 7 | September 28, 2016 08:00 | October 3, 2016 00:30 | 4d 16h | 9,019 | 42K |
| 8 | April 29, 2016 12:15 | May 1, 2016 22:45 | 2d 10h | 8,793 | 38K |
| 9 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 11, 2016 04:45 | 2d 6h | 8,736 | 90K |
| 10 | July 21, 2016 05:45 | July 22, 2016 09:45 | 1d 4h | 8,303 | 36K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 178 reached 100+ customers, 83 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Mecklenburg 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 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.06 | 66 min | 0.73 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| York Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Cornelius - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Huntersville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pineville - (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 ÷ 28,172 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. Mecklenburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mecklenburg 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/mecklenburg-county