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2015 Sampson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Sampson County, NC went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 201K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 255th 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 Sampson 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 | February 12, 2015 13:30 | February 12, 2015 23:00 | 9h 30m | 12,814 | 16K |
| 2 | February 17, 2015 04:30 | February 19, 2015 04:45 | 2d | 5,755 | 113K |
| 3 | June 9, 2015 19:30 | June 10, 2015 06:30 | 11h | 5,082 | 7,423 |
| 4 | March 31, 2015 15:15 | March 31, 2015 15:30 | 15m | 3,954 | 989 |
| 5 | March 7, 2015 10:30 | March 7, 2015 13:30 | 3h | 1,823 | 4,064 |
| 6 | April 9, 2015 10:00 | April 9, 2015 14:15 | 4h 15m | 1,410 | 2,297 |
| 7 | June 27, 2015 10:00 | June 28, 2015 19:15 | 1d 9h | 1,405 | 2,043 |
| 8 | April 6, 2015 12:00 | April 6, 2015 14:30 | 2h 30m | 1,404 | 353 |
| 9 | June 17, 2015 23:45 | June 18, 2015 18:30 | 18h 45m | 1,317 | 3,813 |
| 10 | May 17, 2015 04:15 | May 17, 2015 07:00 | 2h 45m | 1,227 | 3,008 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 71 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Sampson 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,420 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. Sampson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sampson 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/sampson-county