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2017 Edgecombe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Edgecombe County, NC went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 6,466 customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2386th 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 Edgecombe 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 | October 18, 2017 20:15 | October 18, 2017 21:30 | 1h 15m | 1,387 | 1,734 |
| 2 | July 31, 2017 18:15 | July 31, 2017 19:00 | 45m | 523 | 392 |
| 3 | December 4, 2017 15:30 | December 4, 2017 15:45 | 15m | 513 | 128 |
| 4 | July 18, 2017 07:15 | July 18, 2017 16:00 | 8h 45m | 195 | 1,302 |
| 5 | February 8, 2017 05:00 | February 8, 2017 05:45 | 45m | 165 | 124 |
| 6 | August 1, 2017 15:30 | August 1, 2017 17:15 | 1h 45m | 139 | 242 |
| 7 | August 9, 2017 14:30 | August 9, 2017 16:00 | 1h 30m | 127 | 191 |
| 8 | August 9, 2017 11:30 | August 9, 2017 13:30 | 2h | 124 | 154 |
| 9 | June 22, 2017 23:30 | June 23, 2017 06:30 | 7h | 120 | 297 |
| 10 | June 17, 2017 01:15 | June 17, 2017 04:45 | 3h 30m | 119 | 136 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 11 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 Edgecombe 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2017 | 36 min | 0.54 | 30 min | 0.47 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2017 | 49 min | 1.41 | 49 min | 1.41 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of MacClesfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pinetops - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Tarboro - (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 ÷ 19,560 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. Edgecombe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Edgecombe 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/edgecombe-county