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2017 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1727th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 22, 2017 16:30 | July 23, 2017 00:15 | 7h 45m | 2,120 | 3,396 |
| 2 | October 31, 2017 20:00 | October 31, 2017 21:00 | 1h | 1,789 | 1,709 |
| 3 | December 30, 2017 21:45 | December 30, 2017 23:00 | 1h 15m | 1,772 | 1,221 |
| 4 | September 6, 2017 17:15 | September 6, 2017 18:45 | 1h 30m | 1,083 | 1,246 |
| 5 | October 24, 2017 05:30 | October 24, 2017 07:45 | 2h 15m | 982 | 1,315 |
| 6 | February 25, 2017 16:00 | February 25, 2017 17:00 | 1h | 869 | 869 |
| 7 | August 29, 2017 15:00 | August 29, 2017 16:00 | 1h | 866 | 650 |
| 8 | August 7, 2017 18:45 | August 8, 2017 03:15 | 8h 30m | 826 | 4,104 |
| 9 | March 13, 2017 12:15 | March 13, 2017 15:15 | 3h | 816 | 2,257 |
| 10 | April 6, 2017 16:15 | April 7, 2017 00:30 | 8h 15m | 789 | 1,524 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 34 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.00 | 76 min | 0.89 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 8.0 hrs | 2.61 | 4.2 hrs | 2.50 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/beaufort-county