County annual report · FIPS 37179
2016 Union County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Union County, NC went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 276K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 757th 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 Union 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 | May 22, 2016 00:15 | May 22, 2016 05:00 | 4h 45m | 16,832 | 28K |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 12:15 | February 26, 2016 23:30 | 2d 11h | 4,033 | 51K |
| 3 | June 5, 2016 00:30 | June 6, 2016 20:30 | 1d 20h | 3,185 | 11K |
| 4 | August 27, 2016 19:45 | August 28, 2016 18:30 | 22h 45m | 2,854 | 8,520 |
| 5 | January 22, 2016 20:15 | January 23, 2016 23:45 | 1d 3h | 2,555 | 20K |
| 6 | August 7, 2016 12:15 | August 7, 2016 14:45 | 2h 30m | 2,442 | 616 |
| 7 | March 24, 2016 14:00 | March 24, 2016 15:45 | 1h 45m | 2,364 | 2,532 |
| 8 | May 2, 2016 19:45 | May 3, 2016 17:00 | 21h 15m | 2,197 | 4,103 |
| 9 | June 13, 2016 22:15 | June 14, 2016 01:30 | 3h 15m | 2,133 | 2,140 |
| 10 | March 14, 2016 04:45 | March 14, 2016 09:45 | 5h | 2,128 | 9,910 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 89 reached 100+ customers, 36 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 Union 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 20.7 hrs | 4.41 | 2.9 hrs | 2.36 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.06 | 66 min | 0.73 |
| City of Monroe - (NC) | 2013 | 23 min | 0.26 | 23 min | 0.26 |
| 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 ÷ 65,408 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county