County annual report · FIPS 37041
2017 Chowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Chowan County, NC went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 5,851 customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2296th 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 Chowan 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 | September 17, 2017 14:45 | September 17, 2017 16:30 | 1h 45m | 1,678 | 1,679 |
| 2 | July 9, 2017 01:00 | July 9, 2017 09:00 | 8h | 381 | 1,280 |
| 3 | January 7, 2017 12:15 | January 9, 2017 01:30 | 1d 13h | 146 | 1,727 |
| 4 | August 12, 2017 20:00 | August 12, 2017 21:45 | 1h 45m | 97 | 76 |
| 5 | July 4, 2017 21:00 | July 5, 2017 01:00 | 4h | 52 | 157 |
| 6 | April 6, 2017 17:00 | April 6, 2017 21:00 | 4h | 47 | 117 |
| 7 | July 28, 2017 19:00 | July 29, 2017 01:30 | 6h 30m | 44 | 134 |
| 8 | January 27, 2017 12:45 | January 27, 2017 15:15 | 2h 30m | 40 | 92 |
| 9 | April 25, 2017 00:15 | April 25, 2017 03:30 | 3h 15m | 37 | 120 |
| 10 | July 15, 2017 04:15 | July 15, 2017 08:30 | 4h 15m | 35 | 149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Chowan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.51 | 2.9 hrs | 1.36 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Albemarle Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Edenton - (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 ÷ 12,047 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. Chowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chowan 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/chowan-county