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2019 Sampson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Sampson County, NC went without power for an average of 16.6 hours, a total of 322K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 284th 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 Sampson 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 17:15 | September 9, 2019 11:15 | 3d 18h | 14,896 | 220K |
| 2 | December 19, 2019 17:15 | December 19, 2019 18:30 | 1h 15m | 6,688 | 1,673 |
| 3 | April 19, 2019 16:15 | April 20, 2019 10:15 | 18h | 5,795 | 28K |
| 4 | May 30, 2019 21:15 | May 31, 2019 09:45 | 12h 30m | 4,047 | 6,474 |
| 5 | July 10, 2019 04:15 | July 10, 2019 11:30 | 7h 15m | 3,662 | 9,825 |
| 6 | May 19, 2019 00:30 | May 20, 2019 01:15 | 1d | 1,257 | 7,661 |
| 7 | April 26, 2019 21:00 | April 27, 2019 04:00 | 7h | 1,203 | 3,746 |
| 8 | July 13, 2019 18:15 | July 13, 2019 22:45 | 4h 30m | 1,153 | 1,455 |
| 9 | August 19, 2019 17:15 | August 20, 2019 01:15 | 8h | 1,018 | 2,165 |
| 10 | August 22, 2019 22:15 | August 23, 2019 05:15 | 7h | 868 | 1,134 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 53 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Sampson 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,420 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. Sampson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sampson 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/sampson-county