County annual report · FIPS 37149
2016 Polk County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Polk County, NC went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 545th 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 Polk 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 | August 30, 2016 19:00 | August 30, 2016 21:30 | 2h 30m | 2,964 | 4,076 |
| 2 | August 15, 2016 14:45 | August 15, 2016 16:00 | 1h 15m | 1,508 | 1,131 |
| 3 | August 30, 2016 13:00 | August 30, 2016 13:15 | 15m | 1,482 | 371 |
| 4 | December 1, 2016 20:30 | December 2, 2016 00:00 | 3h 30m | 308 | 548 |
| 5 | March 15, 2016 16:15 | March 15, 2016 17:15 | 1h | 298 | 224 |
| 6 | January 13, 2016 20:00 | January 13, 2016 20:30 | 30m | 297 | 149 |
| 7 | February 24, 2016 17:00 | February 26, 2016 00:15 | 1d 7h | 279 | 4,025 |
| 8 | May 15, 2016 06:15 | May 15, 2016 15:00 | 8h 45m | 268 | 866 |
| 9 | November 29, 2016 10:15 | November 29, 2016 22:15 | 12h | 248 | 1,547 |
| 10 | April 9, 2016 06:30 | April 9, 2016 10:15 | 3h 45m | 239 | 493 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 25 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 Polk 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.14 | 47 min | 0.57 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,215 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county