County annual report · FIPS 37083
2017 Halifax County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Halifax County, NC went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1983rd 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 Halifax 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 | February 27, 2017 01:15 | February 27, 2017 05:15 | 4h | 1,586 | 1,811 |
| 2 | April 22, 2017 18:00 | April 23, 2017 08:30 | 14h 30m | 819 | 522 |
| 3 | October 31, 2017 12:00 | October 31, 2017 18:00 | 6h | 813 | 446 |
| 4 | June 22, 2017 12:30 | June 22, 2017 21:30 | 9h | 751 | 1,035 |
| 5 | June 10, 2017 21:30 | June 11, 2017 14:45 | 17h 15m | 532 | 347 |
| 6 | June 17, 2017 10:00 | June 18, 2017 10:45 | 1d | 526 | 2,464 |
| 7 | October 29, 2017 13:45 | October 29, 2017 16:45 | 3h | 520 | 783 |
| 8 | October 24, 2017 03:00 | October 24, 2017 05:00 | 2h | 437 | 655 |
| 9 | April 28, 2017 12:15 | April 28, 2017 14:15 | 2h | 434 | 538 |
| 10 | April 12, 2017 13:30 | April 12, 2017 21:45 | 8h 15m | 432 | 901 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 40 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 Halifax 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 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.51 | 2.9 hrs | 1.36 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Enfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hobgood | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Scotland Neck - (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 ÷ 28,826 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. Halifax County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Halifax 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/halifax-county