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2019 Pamlico County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Pamlico County, NC went without power for an average of 148.5 hours, a total of 269K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 18th 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 Pamlico 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 11, 2019 12:30 | 5d 13h | 7,395 | 191K |
| 2 | April 13, 2019 22:30 | April 13, 2019 23:00 | 30m | 2,033 | 509 |
| 3 | May 3, 2019 09:15 | May 3, 2019 11:15 | 2h | 2,031 | 2,339 |
| 4 | June 10, 2019 13:30 | June 10, 2019 17:15 | 3h 45m | 1,853 | 1,444 |
| 5 | September 16, 2019 18:30 | September 16, 2019 19:00 | 30m | 1,617 | 809 |
| 6 | June 19, 2019 22:30 | June 19, 2019 23:45 | 1h 15m | 1,607 | 1,206 |
| 7 | May 13, 2019 16:00 | May 13, 2019 19:15 | 3h 15m | 1,604 | 1,442 |
| 8 | May 2, 2019 13:45 | May 2, 2019 19:00 | 5h 15m | 1,578 | 5,592 |
| 9 | September 26, 2019 16:00 | September 26, 2019 23:00 | 7h | 1,284 | 2,224 |
| 10 | June 21, 2019 14:15 | June 21, 2019 19:15 | 5h | 1,277 | 645 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 33 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Pamlico 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 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 56.8 hrs | 6.30 | 7.7 hrs | 3.98 |
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 ÷ 1,811 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. Pamlico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pamlico 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/pamlico-county