County annual report · FIPS 37125
2016 Moore County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Moore County, NC went without power for an average of 267.3 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 5th 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 Moore 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 14, 2016 22:15 | 5d 23h | 20,868 | 1.1M |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 12:30 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 5h 15m | 12,148 | 30K |
| 3 | May 6, 2016 21:30 | May 6, 2016 21:45 | 15m | 8,495 | 2,124 |
| 4 | January 22, 2016 17:45 | January 25, 2016 03:00 | 2d 9h | 5,988 | 156K |
| 5 | November 3, 2016 19:00 | November 3, 2016 21:30 | 2h 30m | 5,145 | 1,293 |
| 6 | August 21, 2016 23:00 | August 23, 2016 03:30 | 1d 4h | 4,085 | 40K |
| 7 | July 7, 2016 22:00 | July 9, 2016 22:30 | 2d | 3,518 | 26K |
| 8 | May 21, 2016 09:00 | May 21, 2016 10:45 | 1h 45m | 2,431 | 1,824 |
| 9 | June 5, 2016 02:15 | June 5, 2016 07:30 | 5h 15m | 2,194 | 1,879 |
| 10 | June 24, 2016 02:00 | June 24, 2016 06:30 | 4h 30m | 2,186 | 2,409 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 79 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Moore 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 20.7 hrs | 4.41 | 2.9 hrs | 2.36 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2016 | 36.0 hrs | - | 12.9 hrs | - |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 60.3 hrs | 3.58 | 2.2 hrs | 1.50 |
| 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 ÷ 5,708 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. Moore County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Moore 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/moore-county