County annual report · FIPS 37187
2015 Washington County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Washington County, NC went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 340th 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 Washington 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 | November 19, 2015 09:45 | November 19, 2015 16:45 | 7h | 3,912 | 13K |
| 2 | July 11, 2015 18:45 | July 12, 2015 07:15 | 12h 30m | 1,953 | 4,355 |
| 3 | September 8, 2015 21:45 | September 9, 2015 01:30 | 3h 45m | 1,500 | 1,793 |
| 4 | September 18, 2015 23:15 | September 19, 2015 07:15 | 8h | 862 | 3,699 |
| 5 | August 6, 2015 20:30 | August 7, 2015 07:30 | 11h | 795 | 2,733 |
| 6 | September 22, 2015 20:00 | September 22, 2015 21:15 | 1h 15m | 706 | 486 |
| 7 | June 24, 2015 11:30 | June 24, 2015 15:15 | 3h 45m | 705 | 2,274 |
| 8 | April 24, 2015 14:15 | April 24, 2015 14:45 | 30m | 677 | 339 |
| 9 | October 28, 2015 16:15 | October 28, 2015 17:30 | 1h 15m | 288 | 185 |
| 10 | December 26, 2015 16:15 | December 26, 2015 18:15 | 2h | 215 | 71 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 14 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 7.1 hrs | 2.93 | 4.1 hrs | 2.33 |
| 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 ÷ 4,062 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county