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2017 Sampson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sampson County, NC went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1033rd 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 Sampson 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 30, 2017 03:15 | May 31, 2017 14:30 | 1d 11h | 4,269 | 27K |
| 2 | January 26, 2017 18:15 | January 26, 2017 20:45 | 2h 30m | 1,588 | 2,086 |
| 3 | October 10, 2017 15:30 | October 10, 2017 21:15 | 5h 45m | 1,489 | 7,497 |
| 4 | April 29, 2017 13:00 | April 29, 2017 16:00 | 3h | 1,402 | 1,784 |
| 5 | May 15, 2017 20:15 | May 16, 2017 02:00 | 5h 45m | 955 | 959 |
| 6 | August 24, 2017 23:00 | August 24, 2017 23:15 | 15m | 953 | 238 |
| 7 | December 29, 2017 05:15 | December 29, 2017 08:15 | 3h | 917 | 1,498 |
| 8 | September 6, 2017 02:45 | September 6, 2017 11:00 | 8h 15m | 768 | 1,925 |
| 9 | May 16, 2017 12:15 | May 16, 2017 16:15 | 4h | 766 | 1,343 |
| 10 | December 15, 2017 12:15 | December 15, 2017 22:45 | 10h 30m | 686 | 1,818 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 53 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 Sampson 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,420 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. Sampson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sampson 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/sampson-county