County annual report · FIPS 37191
2016 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 87.6 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 24th 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 Wayne 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 19, 2016 14:30 | 10d 16h | 27,873 | 1.5M |
| 2 | May 10, 2016 11:45 | May 10, 2016 22:15 | 10h 30m | 7,947 | 3,991 |
| 3 | July 7, 2016 21:30 | July 8, 2016 22:00 | 1d | 4,384 | 24K |
| 4 | June 18, 2016 19:30 | June 19, 2016 00:30 | 5h | 2,134 | 2,188 |
| 5 | July 13, 2016 04:30 | July 13, 2016 14:00 | 9h 30m | 2,087 | 589 |
| 6 | August 19, 2016 23:15 | August 20, 2016 00:15 | 1h | 1,902 | 1,427 |
| 7 | September 2, 2016 19:30 | September 4, 2016 00:00 | 1d 4h | 1,578 | 8,574 |
| 8 | July 5, 2016 23:30 | July 6, 2016 05:15 | 5h 45m | 1,410 | 1,981 |
| 9 | August 17, 2016 22:15 | August 18, 2016 00:30 | 2h 15m | 1,319 | 661 |
| 10 | November 17, 2016 15:30 | November 17, 2016 23:30 | 8h | 1,310 | 344 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 71 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Wayne 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.36 | 26 min | 0.45 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (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 ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county