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2017 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 973rd 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 Northampton 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 | July 28, 2017 16:15 | July 29, 2017 17:00 | 1d | 2,072 | 7,213 |
| 2 | March 23, 2017 18:00 | March 23, 2017 18:15 | 15m | 2,065 | 516 |
| 3 | June 6, 2017 13:00 | June 6, 2017 20:15 | 7h 15m | 1,036 | 270 |
| 4 | July 16, 2017 19:00 | July 17, 2017 01:45 | 6h 45m | 811 | 2,531 |
| 5 | September 2, 2017 00:15 | September 2, 2017 01:00 | 45m | 793 | 397 |
| 6 | March 23, 2017 14:15 | March 23, 2017 17:15 | 3h | 727 | 1,091 |
| 7 | January 2, 2017 11:30 | January 2, 2017 13:45 | 2h 15m | 594 | 1,153 |
| 8 | March 2, 2017 02:15 | March 2, 2017 03:45 | 1h 30m | 569 | 671 |
| 9 | March 18, 2017 23:45 | March 19, 2017 12:15 | 12h 30m | 252 | 492 |
| 10 | October 14, 2017 10:30 | October 14, 2017 15:45 | 5h 15m | 171 | 224 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 17 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.94 | 2.8 hrs | 1.85 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.51 | 2.9 hrs | 1.36 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county