County annual report · FIPS 37191
2015 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 640th 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 Wayne 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 | May 9, 2015 19:15 | May 10, 2015 01:30 | 6h 15m | 2,419 | 4,987 |
| 2 | October 4, 2015 18:15 | October 5, 2015 00:15 | 6h | 1,816 | 3,663 |
| 3 | November 10, 2015 02:15 | November 10, 2015 06:00 | 3h 45m | 1,493 | 2,252 |
| 4 | December 8, 2015 14:00 | December 8, 2015 17:00 | 3h | 1,316 | 347 |
| 5 | December 21, 2015 13:30 | December 21, 2015 16:45 | 3h 15m | 1,307 | 667 |
| 6 | December 19, 2015 10:00 | December 19, 2015 21:00 | 11h | 1,282 | 9,922 |
| 7 | December 30, 2015 14:00 | December 30, 2015 16:00 | 2h | 1,202 | 1,316 |
| 8 | September 7, 2015 21:15 | September 7, 2015 23:30 | 2h 15m | 1,187 | 1,303 |
| 9 | January 1, 2015 13:15 | January 1, 2015 22:15 | 9h | 1,150 | 1,854 |
| 10 | August 3, 2015 14:30 | August 3, 2015 17:15 | 2h 45m | 946 | 949 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 74 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Wayne 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2015 | 48 min | 0.93 | 14 min | 0.37 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (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 ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county