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2019 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 8.8 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 629th 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 Northampton 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 | June 1, 2019 11:15 | June 2, 2019 06:00 | 18h 45m | 1,844 | 8,204 |
| 2 | November 1, 2019 00:45 | November 1, 2019 19:15 | 18h 30m | 1,477 | 4,221 |
| 3 | August 24, 2019 02:30 | August 24, 2019 22:15 | 19h 45m | 1,321 | 4,997 |
| 4 | September 13, 2019 06:15 | September 13, 2019 09:15 | 3h | 1,279 | 1,053 |
| 5 | September 6, 2019 04:30 | September 6, 2019 22:30 | 18h | 1,261 | 5,195 |
| 6 | April 19, 2019 23:00 | April 20, 2019 17:45 | 18h 45m | 1,048 | 4,432 |
| 7 | June 20, 2019 20:30 | June 22, 2019 06:30 | 1d 10h | 1,029 | 3,769 |
| 8 | June 16, 2019 19:45 | June 17, 2019 01:00 | 5h 15m | 794 | 1,877 |
| 9 | April 15, 2019 06:30 | April 16, 2019 00:00 | 17h 30m | 730 | 4,400 |
| 10 | April 13, 2019 19:15 | April 13, 2019 20:30 | 1h 15m | 678 | 362 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 25 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 Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.54 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county