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2015 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 450th 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 Northampton 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 | September 2, 2015 23:15 | September 3, 2015 09:30 | 10h 15m | 2,233 | 7,470 |
| 2 | September 10, 2015 05:00 | September 10, 2015 08:00 | 3h | 1,470 | 1,844 |
| 3 | May 12, 2015 21:00 | May 13, 2015 03:15 | 6h 15m | 1,429 | 3,440 |
| 4 | October 4, 2015 15:15 | October 4, 2015 17:30 | 2h 15m | 798 | 1,796 |
| 5 | May 22, 2015 01:45 | May 22, 2015 13:30 | 11h 45m | 795 | 9,132 |
| 6 | July 1, 2015 00:30 | July 1, 2015 15:45 | 15h 15m | 261 | 3,825 |
| 7 | February 3, 2015 00:15 | February 3, 2015 00:45 | 30m | 253 | 127 |
| 8 | November 4, 2015 00:15 | November 4, 2015 02:00 | 1h 45m | 252 | 441 |
| 9 | August 6, 2015 21:30 | August 7, 2015 15:45 | 18h 15m | 244 | 668 |
| 10 | October 4, 2015 06:15 | October 4, 2015 10:15 | 4h | 172 | 581 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 17 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 5.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.0 hrs | 1.59 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 4.2 hrs | 2.30 | 3.9 hrs | 2.24 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county