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2019 Martin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Martin County, NC went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1097th 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 Martin 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 22:45 | September 8, 2019 18:15 | 2d 19h | 3,207 | 43K |
| 2 | June 20, 2019 21:45 | June 22, 2019 00:15 | 1d 2h | 1,877 | 13K |
| 3 | December 6, 2019 13:30 | December 6, 2019 18:45 | 5h 15m | 816 | 494 |
| 4 | June 8, 2019 18:00 | June 8, 2019 19:45 | 1h 45m | 522 | 912 |
| 5 | July 22, 2019 21:45 | July 23, 2019 02:00 | 4h 15m | 332 | 1,071 |
| 6 | October 21, 2019 00:30 | October 21, 2019 13:00 | 12h 30m | 323 | 354 |
| 7 | November 1, 2019 03:15 | November 1, 2019 16:15 | 13h | 293 | 2,325 |
| 8 | January 15, 2019 14:00 | January 15, 2019 16:30 | 2h 30m | 256 | 246 |
| 9 | August 8, 2019 10:00 | August 8, 2019 12:30 | 2h 30m | 245 | 552 |
| 10 | August 5, 2019 00:15 | August 5, 2019 09:15 | 9h | 214 | 387 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 14 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Martin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 2.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robersonville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hamilton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oak City - (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 ÷ 13,275 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county