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2017 Nash County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Nash County, NC went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1412th 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 Nash 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 | May 5, 2017 06:15 | May 6, 2017 02:45 | 20h 30m | 2,921 | 7,515 |
| 2 | August 15, 2017 17:15 | August 15, 2017 23:45 | 6h 30m | 1,701 | 1,163 |
| 3 | June 4, 2017 21:15 | June 5, 2017 20:30 | 23h 15m | 1,214 | 5,219 |
| 4 | July 8, 2017 18:00 | July 9, 2017 14:30 | 20h 30m | 1,042 | 3,701 |
| 5 | July 26, 2017 04:15 | July 26, 2017 08:15 | 4h | 928 | 952 |
| 6 | January 13, 2017 09:30 | January 13, 2017 15:30 | 6h | 927 | 2,339 |
| 7 | October 28, 2017 23:15 | October 29, 2017 05:45 | 6h 30m | 778 | 2,250 |
| 8 | July 23, 2017 22:00 | July 24, 2017 17:30 | 19h 30m | 760 | 5,170 |
| 9 | July 16, 2017 09:15 | July 16, 2017 10:45 | 1h 30m | 733 | 920 |
| 10 | January 3, 2017 11:30 | January 3, 2017 12:45 | 1h 15m | 690 | 861 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 52 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 Nash 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2017 | 87 min | 1.47 | 73 min | 1.30 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2017 | 49 min | 1.41 | 49 min | 1.41 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (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 ÷ 26,243 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. Nash County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nash 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/nash-county