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2017 Martin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Martin County, NC went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2031st 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 Martin 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 | April 23, 2017 04:15 | April 24, 2017 07:30 | 1d 3h | 2,171 | 2,262 |
| 2 | April 6, 2017 15:45 | April 6, 2017 22:00 | 6h 15m | 754 | 1,521 |
| 3 | May 7, 2017 21:45 | May 7, 2017 22:45 | 1h | 744 | 417 |
| 4 | October 24, 2017 18:45 | October 24, 2017 19:15 | 30m | 696 | 348 |
| 5 | January 7, 2017 11:00 | January 8, 2017 11:00 | 1d | 517 | 2,632 |
| 6 | August 8, 2017 15:45 | August 8, 2017 16:30 | 45m | 422 | 264 |
| 7 | April 24, 2017 09:00 | April 25, 2017 08:00 | 23h | 340 | 765 |
| 8 | June 20, 2017 09:00 | June 30, 2017 23:45 | 10d 14h | 211 | 692 |
| 9 | December 15, 2017 19:00 | December 15, 2017 20:00 | 1h | 207 | 163 |
| 10 | April 25, 2017 09:15 | April 30, 2017 16:30 | 5d 7h | 184 | 315 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 15 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 Martin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.00 | 76 min | 0.89 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robersonville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hamilton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oak City - (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 ÷ 13,275 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county