County annual report · FIPS 37187
2016 Washington County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Washington County, NC went without power for an average of 55.9 hours, a total of 227K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 46th 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 Washington 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 23:15 | October 12, 2016 22:15 | 3d 23h | 4,065 | 150K |
| 2 | September 3, 2016 03:00 | September 5, 2016 03:45 | 2d | 3,589 | 47K |
| 3 | April 5, 2016 12:30 | April 5, 2016 18:15 | 5h 45m | 2,288 | 2,761 |
| 4 | April 4, 2016 12:30 | April 4, 2016 16:30 | 4h | 1,683 | 3,409 |
| 5 | February 19, 2016 12:00 | February 19, 2016 13:15 | 1h 15m | 1,258 | 493 |
| 6 | July 16, 2016 22:30 | July 17, 2016 07:15 | 8h 45m | 1,023 | 2,565 |
| 7 | July 29, 2016 02:15 | July 29, 2016 04:45 | 2h 30m | 695 | 1,731 |
| 8 | May 29, 2016 09:00 | May 29, 2016 18:45 | 9h 45m | 608 | 4,270 |
| 9 | July 6, 2016 21:30 | July 7, 2016 18:15 | 20h 45m | 530 | 5,131 |
| 10 | July 30, 2016 18:15 | July 31, 2016 11:30 | 17h 15m | 415 | 1,100 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 21 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 7.9 hrs | 2.11 | 4.5 hrs | 1.72 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,062 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county