County annual report · FIPS 37193
2016 Wilkes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wilkes County, NC went without power for an average of 113.0 hours, a total of 909K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 16th 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 Wilkes 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 23:15 | July 13, 2016 02:45 | 4d 3h | 23,217 | 705K |
| 2 | February 16, 2016 03:45 | February 17, 2016 11:45 | 1d 8h | 7,359 | 58K |
| 3 | February 10, 2016 18:30 | February 11, 2016 03:00 | 8h 30m | 3,797 | 2,083 |
| 4 | November 16, 2016 07:30 | November 16, 2016 12:15 | 4h 45m | 3,336 | 16K |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 14:30 | February 26, 2016 18:30 | 2d 4h | 1,707 | 11K |
| 6 | September 20, 2016 10:30 | September 20, 2016 10:45 | 15m | 1,578 | 395 |
| 7 | September 21, 2016 19:45 | September 21, 2016 20:45 | 1h | 1,578 | 790 |
| 8 | May 13, 2016 07:00 | May 13, 2016 23:30 | 16h 30m | 1,467 | 5,454 |
| 9 | June 4, 2016 21:30 | June 5, 2016 11:00 | 13h 30m | 1,436 | 12K |
| 10 | November 30, 2016 15:45 | November 30, 2016 19:00 | 3h 15m | 1,390 | 1,770 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 87 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 Wilkes 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2016 | 4.9 hrs | 1.60 | 84 min | 1.10 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 8.8 hrs | 2.25 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 ÷ 8,042 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county