County annual report · FIPS 37123
2016 Montgomery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Montgomery County, NC went without power for an average of 47.8 hours, a total of 241K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 54th 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 Montgomery 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 22:30 | October 13, 2016 17:30 | 4d 19h | 6,638 | 125K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 12:30 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 5h 15m | 6,384 | 16K |
| 3 | June 24, 2016 02:00 | June 24, 2016 15:45 | 13h 45m | 3,594 | 4,966 |
| 4 | July 9, 2016 01:00 | July 10, 2016 01:00 | 1d | 2,633 | 15K |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 18:15 | February 26, 2016 09:15 | 1d 15h | 2,492 | 17K |
| 6 | December 12, 2016 21:00 | December 12, 2016 23:30 | 2h 30m | 1,970 | 1,892 |
| 7 | May 8, 2016 17:00 | May 8, 2016 19:15 | 2h 15m | 1,683 | 3,787 |
| 8 | March 30, 2016 14:00 | March 30, 2016 20:00 | 6h | 1,113 | 290 |
| 9 | September 14, 2016 12:00 | September 14, 2016 12:15 | 15m | 1,085 | 271 |
| 10 | September 29, 2016 02:30 | October 6, 2016 11:00 | 7d 8h | 1,029 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 49 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Montgomery 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 20.7 hrs | 4.41 | 2.9 hrs | 2.36 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 4.1 hrs | 2.35 | 1.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,038 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county