County annual report · FIPS 37013
2015 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1558th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2015
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 9, 2015 19:45 | July 9, 2015 21:15 | 1h 30m | 1,542 | 1,157 |
| 2 | February 17, 2015 07:00 | February 18, 2015 19:30 | 1d 12h | 1,011 | 16K |
| 3 | May 1, 2015 01:00 | May 1, 2015 01:30 | 30m | 834 | 417 |
| 4 | June 12, 2015 22:15 | June 13, 2015 02:15 | 4h | 834 | 909 |
| 5 | October 3, 2015 19:00 | October 3, 2015 20:45 | 1h 45m | 670 | 838 |
| 6 | October 29, 2015 19:45 | October 30, 2015 01:00 | 5h 15m | 511 | 711 |
| 7 | July 17, 2015 22:30 | July 18, 2015 00:30 | 2h | 439 | 798 |
| 8 | March 2, 2015 18:45 | March 2, 2015 23:30 | 4h 45m | 360 | 437 |
| 9 | July 22, 2015 01:00 | July 22, 2015 04:15 | 3h 15m | 293 | 192 |
| 10 | September 23, 2015 13:15 | September 23, 2015 22:15 | 9h | 237 | 1,292 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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) | 2015 | 4.8 hrs | 1.90 | 3.0 hrs | 1.65 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2015 | 4.1 hrs | 2.02 | 2.3 hrs | 1.55 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 7.1 hrs | 2.93 | 4.1 hrs | 2.33 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/north-carolina/beaufort-county