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2016 Vance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Vance County, NC went without power for an average of 144.2 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 12th 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 Vance 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 | July 8, 2016 21:45 | July 10, 2016 16:00 | 1d 18h | 4,980 | 58K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 10, 2016 23:00 | 2d | 3,274 | 19K |
| 3 | July 13, 2016 00:45 | July 13, 2016 06:30 | 5h 45m | 1,990 | 1,343 |
| 4 | July 27, 2016 13:45 | July 28, 2016 14:15 | 1d | 1,607 | 3,634 |
| 5 | September 28, 2016 17:30 | September 29, 2016 01:45 | 8h 15m | 1,545 | 1,816 |
| 6 | July 13, 2016 18:30 | July 13, 2016 22:15 | 3h 45m | 1,500 | 797 |
| 7 | October 22, 2016 01:15 | October 22, 2016 08:45 | 7h 30m | 1,500 | 906 |
| 8 | July 20, 2016 01:30 | July 20, 2016 09:30 | 8h | 1,339 | 1,901 |
| 9 | March 24, 2016 17:15 | March 24, 2016 19:15 | 2h | 1,204 | 310 |
| 10 | April 9, 2016 14:15 | April 9, 2016 20:45 | 6h 30m | 1,196 | 1,520 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 39 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Vance 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 5.4 hrs | 2.21 | 4.3 hrs | 2.03 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2016 | 4.6 hrs | 1.75 | 79 min | 1.60 |
| 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 ÷ 863 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. Vance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vance 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/vance-county