County annual report · FIPS 37183
2016 Wake County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wake County, NC went without power for an average of 164.9 hours, a total of 7.7M customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 10th 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 Wake 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 15, 2016 07:15 | 6d 8h | 119,303 | 5.0M |
| 2 | January 22, 2016 08:15 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 3d 10h | 62,541 | 1.8M |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 11:15 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 6h 30m | 29,051 | 23K |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 10:45 | February 26, 2016 03:45 | 1d 17h | 11,846 | 45K |
| 5 | April 28, 2016 09:15 | April 30, 2016 02:30 | 1d 17h | 11,299 | 47K |
| 6 | July 11, 2016 11:30 | July 19, 2016 05:30 | 7d 18h | 10,608 | 54K |
| 7 | October 3, 2016 12:00 | October 4, 2016 02:30 | 14h 30m | 10,256 | 4,047 |
| 8 | April 30, 2016 05:15 | May 1, 2016 08:15 | 1d 3h | 9,421 | 23K |
| 9 | June 29, 2016 11:15 | July 2, 2016 05:45 | 2d 18h | 9,365 | 44K |
| 10 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 25, 2016 07:15 | 1d 20h | 8,485 | 33K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 251 reached 100+ customers, 87 reached 1,000+ customers, 7 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 Wake 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2016 | 4.6 hrs | 1.75 | 79 min | 1.60 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Carolina Eastern M P A | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Apex- (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wake Forest - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 46,622 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. Wake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wake 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/wake-county