County annual report · FIPS 37195
2016 Wilson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wilson County, NC went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1253rd 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 Wilson 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 | January 22, 2016 21:45 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 2d 20h | 888 | 39K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 12, 2016 22:15 | 3d 23h | 678 | 34K |
| 3 | April 9, 2016 14:30 | April 9, 2016 17:00 | 2h 30m | 315 | 526 |
| 4 | June 23, 2016 03:30 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 6h 30m | 228 | 610 |
| 5 | July 9, 2016 00:45 | July 10, 2016 01:00 | 1d | 204 | 1,843 |
| 6 | January 15, 2016 23:30 | January 16, 2016 02:45 | 3h 15m | 182 | 230 |
| 7 | March 1, 2016 20:30 | March 1, 2016 22:45 | 2h 15m | 157 | 343 |
| 8 | July 17, 2016 03:00 | July 17, 2016 10:15 | 7h 15m | 87 | 355 |
| 9 | June 18, 2016 00:30 | June 18, 2016 04:30 | 4h | 86 | 344 |
| 10 | August 20, 2016 01:45 | August 20, 2016 03:00 | 1h 15m | 86 | 102 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Wilson 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 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2016 | 9.1 hrs | 2.36 | 4.6 hrs | 2.04 |
| 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 Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Black Creek - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Lucama - (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 ÷ 35,644 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. Wilson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilson 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/wilson-county