County annual report · FIPS 37147
2016 Pitt County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pitt County, NC went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 239K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1001st 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 Pitt 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 23:00 | October 21, 2016 20:45 | 12d 21h | 2,907 | 234K |
| 2 | May 29, 2016 07:15 | May 29, 2016 08:45 | 1h 30m | 1,242 | 1,863 |
| 3 | December 3, 2016 23:00 | December 3, 2016 23:45 | 45m | 578 | 434 |
| 4 | September 30, 2016 15:30 | September 30, 2016 17:30 | 2h | 112 | 140 |
| 5 | July 19, 2016 20:00 | July 19, 2016 23:00 | 3h | 108 | 218 |
| 6 | April 22, 2016 22:30 | April 22, 2016 23:45 | 1h 15m | 87 | 99 |
| 7 | July 9, 2016 01:30 | July 9, 2016 19:30 | 18h | 67 | 306 |
| 8 | August 16, 2016 17:45 | August 16, 2016 21:45 | 4h | 67 | 84 |
| 9 | February 8, 2016 14:00 | February 8, 2016 15:00 | 1h | 56 | 56 |
| 10 | February 16, 2016 14:00 | February 16, 2016 18:30 | 4h 30m | 55 | 236 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Pitt 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 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winterville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Greenville Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Ayden - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Farmville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fountain - (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 ÷ 80,606 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. Pitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pitt 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/pitt-county