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2016 Sampson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sampson County, NC went without power for an average of 93.3 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 20th 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 Sampson 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 16, 2016 13:15 | 7d 14h | 25,275 | 1.7M |
| 2 | December 28, 2016 10:00 | December 28, 2016 13:15 | 3h 15m | 4,026 | 7,047 |
| 3 | January 22, 2016 19:30 | January 24, 2016 22:45 | 2d 3h | 2,454 | 17K |
| 4 | September 2, 2016 20:00 | September 3, 2016 21:45 | 1d 1h | 1,398 | 19K |
| 5 | July 5, 2016 23:30 | July 6, 2016 14:30 | 15h | 1,275 | 3,260 |
| 6 | July 7, 2016 20:30 | July 9, 2016 21:00 | 2d | 1,119 | 4,867 |
| 7 | October 8, 2016 12:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 5h 45m | 1,040 | 3,201 |
| 8 | August 8, 2016 15:30 | August 8, 2016 17:00 | 1h 30m | 930 | 469 |
| 9 | February 24, 2016 17:30 | February 25, 2016 09:45 | 16h 15m | 907 | 4,841 |
| 10 | July 23, 2016 22:00 | July 24, 2016 05:15 | 7h 15m | 841 | 5,675 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 84 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Sampson 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec 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 ÷ 19,420 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. Sampson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sampson 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/sampson-county