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2016 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 399th 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 Northampton 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 24, 2016 22:15 | February 25, 2016 18:15 | 20h | 2,199 | 2,020 |
| 2 | July 13, 2016 09:45 | July 13, 2016 19:15 | 9h 30m | 2,064 | 3,755 |
| 3 | September 3, 2016 01:00 | September 3, 2016 05:45 | 4h 45m | 2,052 | 4,666 |
| 4 | August 27, 2016 03:15 | August 27, 2016 09:45 | 6h 30m | 1,780 | 3,085 |
| 5 | September 21, 2016 10:00 | September 21, 2016 15:45 | 5h 45m | 1,277 | 1,336 |
| 6 | July 31, 2016 16:30 | August 1, 2016 08:45 | 16h 15m | 1,193 | 4,785 |
| 7 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 11, 2016 01:15 | 2d 2h | 1,000 | 16K |
| 8 | April 27, 2016 23:30 | April 28, 2016 23:30 | 1d | 940 | 2,774 |
| 9 | August 6, 2016 12:45 | August 6, 2016 15:00 | 2h 15m | 670 | 461 |
| 10 | January 22, 2016 22:30 | January 23, 2016 19:00 | 20h 30m | 634 | 1,645 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 20 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 5.4 hrs | 2.21 | 4.3 hrs | 2.03 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 8.9 hrs | 2.08 | 2.2 hrs | 1.36 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county