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2017 Pamlico County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Pamlico County, NC went without power for an average of 9.2 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 588th 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 Pamlico 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 | September 27, 2017 01:30 | September 27, 2017 03:15 | 1h 45m | 1,371 | 2,060 |
| 2 | September 12, 2017 08:00 | September 12, 2017 19:45 | 11h 45m | 936 | 1,523 |
| 3 | May 3, 2017 18:15 | May 4, 2017 00:45 | 6h 30m | 752 | 1,696 |
| 4 | June 16, 2017 12:00 | June 16, 2017 18:30 | 6h 30m | 679 | 4,078 |
| 5 | September 15, 2017 10:30 | September 15, 2017 12:45 | 2h 15m | 559 | 799 |
| 6 | May 22, 2017 16:45 | May 22, 2017 20:45 | 4h | 353 | 831 |
| 7 | October 24, 2017 05:30 | October 24, 2017 08:00 | 2h 30m | 228 | 437 |
| 8 | August 7, 2017 18:45 | August 7, 2017 20:00 | 1h 15m | 227 | 67 |
| 9 | August 8, 2017 23:15 | August 9, 2017 03:45 | 4h 30m | 165 | 348 |
| 10 | February 16, 2017 04:30 | February 16, 2017 08:45 | 4h 15m | 142 | 604 |
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 Pamlico 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 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 8.0 hrs | 2.61 | 4.2 hrs | 2.50 |
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 ÷ 1,811 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. Pamlico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pamlico 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/pamlico-county