County annual report · FIPS 37145
2016 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 300th 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 Person 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 | July 8, 2016 23:00 | July 9, 2016 23:00 | 1d | 3,441 | 19K |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 19:45 | February 25, 2016 10:00 | 14h 15m | 1,988 | 2,999 |
| 3 | June 5, 2016 23:00 | June 6, 2016 17:45 | 18h 45m | 1,790 | 7,076 |
| 4 | February 20, 2016 07:15 | February 20, 2016 10:15 | 3h | 823 | 2,469 |
| 5 | June 2, 2016 19:00 | June 2, 2016 19:15 | 15m | 772 | 193 |
| 6 | July 11, 2016 11:45 | July 11, 2016 14:15 | 2h 30m | 708 | 709 |
| 7 | April 27, 2016 01:45 | April 27, 2016 03:15 | 1h 30m | 707 | 893 |
| 8 | January 8, 2016 23:15 | January 9, 2016 02:15 | 3h | 690 | 1,125 |
| 9 | June 23, 2016 23:30 | June 24, 2016 23:45 | 1d | 644 | 4,398 |
| 10 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 10, 2016 12:15 | 1d 13h | 633 | 6,818 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 42 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Person 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 5.4 hrs | 2.21 | 4.3 hrs | 2.03 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 3.5 hrs | 1.49 | 2.1 hrs | 1.17 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 5,498 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. Person County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Person 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/person-county