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2016 Nash County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Nash County, NC went without power for an average of 37.2 hours, a total of 976K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 73rd 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 Nash 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 05:15 | 4d 6h | 11,824 | 485K |
| 2 | January 22, 2016 17:45 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 3d | 10,366 | 360K |
| 3 | July 15, 2016 22:00 | July 17, 2016 14:45 | 1d 16h | 4,522 | 21K |
| 4 | July 5, 2016 22:30 | July 6, 2016 16:45 | 18h 15m | 4,487 | 4,697 |
| 5 | July 8, 2016 23:15 | July 10, 2016 01:00 | 1d 1h | 2,972 | 27K |
| 6 | August 17, 2016 22:15 | August 18, 2016 02:45 | 4h 30m | 2,163 | 3,793 |
| 7 | July 28, 2016 23:00 | July 29, 2016 04:45 | 5h 45m | 2,159 | 3,136 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 19:15 | February 25, 2016 11:15 | 16h | 2,073 | 7,253 |
| 9 | July 19, 2016 23:45 | July 20, 2016 16:00 | 16h 15m | 2,054 | 4,587 |
| 10 | April 23, 2016 20:15 | April 23, 2016 22:15 | 2h | 2,046 | 2,075 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 64 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Nash 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 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2016 | 9.1 hrs | 2.36 | 4.6 hrs | 2.04 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.36 | 26 min | 0.45 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2016 | 4.6 hrs | 1.75 | 79 min | 1.60 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 6.5 hrs | 2.14 | 6.5 hrs | 2.14 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.99 | 55 min | 1.47 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (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 ÷ 26,243 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. Nash County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nash 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/nash-county