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2019 Nash County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Nash County, NC went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1198th 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 Nash 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 | December 8, 2019 09:15 | December 8, 2019 11:30 | 2h 15m | 4,558 | 10K |
| 2 | August 13, 2019 21:45 | August 14, 2019 09:45 | 12h | 3,773 | 13K |
| 3 | December 1, 2019 15:45 | December 1, 2019 18:45 | 3h | 3,553 | 4,639 |
| 4 | June 20, 2019 20:15 | June 21, 2019 21:30 | 1d 1h | 3,116 | 33K |
| 5 | May 31, 2019 15:45 | May 31, 2019 17:30 | 1h 45m | 2,382 | 2,295 |
| 6 | January 30, 2019 15:00 | January 30, 2019 19:00 | 4h | 2,042 | 3,434 |
| 7 | May 9, 2019 12:30 | May 9, 2019 16:30 | 4h | 2,040 | 532 |
| 8 | December 19, 2019 12:15 | December 19, 2019 22:45 | 10h 30m | 2,020 | 656 |
| 9 | July 30, 2019 21:00 | July 30, 2019 21:15 | 15m | 1,118 | 280 |
| 10 | November 1, 2019 00:30 | November 1, 2019 09:45 | 9h 15m | 949 | 1,124 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 60 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Nash 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2018 | 40 min | 0.70 | 32 min | 0.60 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.98 | 73 min | 1.10 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 2.46 | 51 min | 1.44 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (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 ÷ 26,243 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. Nash County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nash 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/nash-county