County annual report · FIPS 37041
2015 Chowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Chowan County, NC went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 8,093 customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1974th 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 Chowan 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 | October 28, 2015 01:30 | October 28, 2015 04:30 | 3h | 979 | 2,693 |
| 2 | October 1, 2015 04:15 | October 1, 2015 05:15 | 1h | 976 | 694 |
| 3 | November 21, 2015 12:30 | November 21, 2015 14:45 | 2h 15m | 575 | 702 |
| 4 | October 6, 2015 18:30 | October 6, 2015 22:30 | 4h | 377 | 231 |
| 5 | July 18, 2015 21:30 | July 18, 2015 22:15 | 45m | 219 | 110 |
| 6 | February 15, 2015 04:00 | February 15, 2015 06:30 | 2h 30m | 183 | 458 |
| 7 | July 1, 2015 00:00 | July 1, 2015 17:00 | 17h | 183 | 2,355 |
| 8 | May 16, 2015 12:15 | May 16, 2015 13:45 | 1h 30m | 90 | 134 |
| 9 | May 18, 2015 12:15 | May 18, 2015 12:30 | 15m | 89 | 22 |
| 10 | April 8, 2015 19:00 | April 8, 2015 19:15 | 15m | 50 | 13 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 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 Chowan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 4.2 hrs | 2.30 | 3.9 hrs | 2.24 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Albemarle Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Edenton - (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 ÷ 12,047 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. Chowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chowan 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/chowan-county