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2016 Stokes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Stokes County, NC went without power for an average of 18.2 hours, a total of 114K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 163rd 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 Stokes 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 | February 24, 2016 18:30 | February 27, 2016 00:00 | 2d 5h | 4,209 | 35K |
| 2 | July 27, 2016 22:00 | July 28, 2016 20:30 | 22h 30m | 3,507 | 17K |
| 3 | May 12, 2016 21:45 | May 13, 2016 02:15 | 4h 30m | 1,808 | 1,370 |
| 4 | June 5, 2016 01:00 | June 6, 2016 07:30 | 1d 6h | 1,763 | 16K |
| 5 | July 19, 2016 18:45 | July 20, 2016 08:45 | 14h | 1,271 | 3,665 |
| 6 | June 29, 2016 22:15 | June 30, 2016 08:15 | 10h | 1,018 | 2,768 |
| 7 | November 29, 2016 15:15 | November 29, 2016 23:00 | 7h 45m | 782 | 927 |
| 8 | September 1, 2016 20:00 | September 2, 2016 03:15 | 7h 15m | 759 | 4,931 |
| 9 | April 2, 2016 19:45 | April 3, 2016 17:00 | 21h 15m | 693 | 3,140 |
| 10 | August 26, 2016 09:15 | August 26, 2016 11:15 | 2h | 616 | 1,232 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 39 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Stokes 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 8.8 hrs | 2.25 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 ÷ 6,242 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. Stokes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stokes 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/stokes-county