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2019 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 16.6 hours, a total of 328K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 283rd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2019
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 5, 2019 22:15 | September 10, 2019 18:15 | 4d 20h | 9,310 | 264K |
| 2 | May 30, 2019 23:30 | May 31, 2019 08:00 | 8h 30m | 2,400 | 16K |
| 3 | December 19, 2019 17:15 | December 19, 2019 18:45 | 1h 30m | 2,333 | 584 |
| 4 | April 15, 2019 06:30 | April 15, 2019 17:15 | 10h 45m | 1,868 | 3,102 |
| 5 | May 31, 2019 16:15 | June 1, 2019 17:30 | 1d 1h | 1,460 | 7,579 |
| 6 | June 21, 2019 00:30 | June 21, 2019 01:45 | 1h 15m | 1,116 | 1,116 |
| 7 | April 23, 2019 15:30 | April 30, 2019 20:45 | 7d 5h | 1,034 | 2,215 |
| 8 | August 10, 2019 20:30 | August 11, 2019 01:15 | 4h 45m | 985 | 2,714 |
| 9 | April 2, 2019 15:15 | April 2, 2019 15:30 | 15m | 975 | 244 |
| 10 | March 22, 2019 13:15 | March 22, 2019 15:00 | 1h 45m | 894 | 1,565 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 38 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 2.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 56.8 hrs | 6.30 | 7.7 hrs | 3.98 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/beaufort-county