County annual report · FIPS 37133
2016 Onslow County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Onslow County, NC went without power for an average of 10.1 hours, a total of 782K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 342nd 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 Onslow 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 00:45 | 4d 2h | 30,149 | 649K |
| 2 | October 21, 2016 22:45 | October 22, 2016 08:45 | 10h | 5,844 | 18K |
| 3 | October 7, 2016 15:45 | October 7, 2016 17:15 | 1h 30m | 5,838 | 1,462 |
| 4 | November 5, 2016 05:15 | November 5, 2016 07:30 | 2h 15m | 5,831 | 13K |
| 5 | May 13, 2016 10:15 | May 13, 2016 20:00 | 9h 45m | 4,971 | 3,345 |
| 6 | October 8, 2016 13:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 4h 45m | 4,022 | 9,347 |
| 7 | November 30, 2016 11:45 | November 30, 2016 17:00 | 5h 15m | 2,985 | 3,771 |
| 8 | August 6, 2016 20:15 | August 7, 2016 08:45 | 12h 30m | 2,469 | 1,505 |
| 9 | February 16, 2016 12:30 | February 16, 2016 18:45 | 6h 15m | 2,393 | 2,710 |
| 10 | June 16, 2016 06:15 | June 16, 2016 09:45 | 3h 30m | 2,242 | 3,644 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 71 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Onslow 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carteret-Craven El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 77,669 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. Onslow County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Onslow 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/onslow-county