County annual report · FIPS 37191
2017 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 58K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1281st 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 Wayne 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 25, 2017 04:45 | July 25, 2017 10:00 | 5h 15m | 2,893 | 5,975 |
| 2 | May 1, 2017 20:00 | May 2, 2017 00:30 | 4h 30m | 2,810 | 1,980 |
| 3 | June 21, 2017 17:15 | June 21, 2017 17:45 | 30m | 2,136 | 1,068 |
| 4 | April 21, 2017 05:15 | April 21, 2017 13:45 | 8h 30m | 2,126 | 3,848 |
| 5 | January 26, 2017 08:30 | January 26, 2017 13:30 | 5h | 1,313 | 3,619 |
| 6 | January 7, 2017 12:15 | January 7, 2017 16:00 | 3h 45m | 911 | 1,556 |
| 7 | April 8, 2017 08:45 | April 8, 2017 14:30 | 5h 45m | 897 | 1,793 |
| 8 | October 11, 2017 06:30 | October 11, 2017 08:00 | 1h 30m | 591 | 296 |
| 9 | February 11, 2017 12:15 | February 11, 2017 16:00 | 3h 45m | 589 | 444 |
| 10 | May 31, 2017 19:15 | May 31, 2017 22:45 | 3h 30m | 539 | 543 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 60 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Wayne 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2017 | 36 min | 0.54 | 30 min | 0.47 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (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 ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county