County annual report · FIPS 37135
2016 Orange County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orange County, NC went without power for an average of 11.1 hours, a total of 213K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 313th 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 Orange 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 | January 20, 2016 15:15 | January 21, 2016 11:15 | 20h | 6,866 | 7,868 |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 10:45 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 7h | 4,372 | 1,807 |
| 3 | August 12, 2016 03:30 | August 12, 2016 05:00 | 1h 30m | 3,438 | 860 |
| 4 | August 12, 2016 08:30 | August 12, 2016 09:15 | 45m | 3,437 | 860 |
| 5 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 11, 2016 21:30 | 2d 23h | 3,227 | 46K |
| 6 | June 11, 2016 13:45 | June 11, 2016 15:15 | 1h 30m | 2,613 | 3,266 |
| 7 | February 24, 2016 15:45 | February 26, 2016 07:00 | 1d 15h | 2,415 | 26K |
| 8 | May 2, 2016 21:15 | May 4, 2016 01:15 | 1d 4h | 2,187 | 5,384 |
| 9 | June 18, 2016 20:45 | June 19, 2016 03:15 | 6h 30m | 2,145 | 2,031 |
| 10 | April 28, 2016 21:15 | April 29, 2016 07:45 | 10h 30m | 2,091 | 2,742 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 97 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Orange 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 3.5 hrs | 1.49 | 2.1 hrs | 1.17 |
| 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 ÷ 19,163 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county