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2019 Washington County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Washington County, NC went without power for an average of 39.7 hours, a total of 161K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 77th 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 Washington 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 20:30 | September 10, 2019 20:45 | 5d | 5,654 | 142K |
| 2 | June 20, 2019 21:45 | June 21, 2019 23:15 | 1d 1h | 1,798 | 3,241 |
| 3 | January 31, 2019 16:00 | January 31, 2019 20:45 | 4h 45m | 1,676 | 847 |
| 4 | July 16, 2019 20:30 | July 17, 2019 03:30 | 7h | 1,243 | 1,133 |
| 5 | January 20, 2019 10:45 | January 20, 2019 11:45 | 1h | 1,240 | 1,240 |
| 6 | November 1, 2019 06:00 | November 1, 2019 08:00 | 2h | 804 | 1,207 |
| 7 | August 23, 2019 23:15 | August 24, 2019 08:30 | 9h 15m | 512 | 485 |
| 8 | August 6, 2019 05:30 | August 6, 2019 09:00 | 3h 30m | 357 | 602 |
| 9 | October 16, 2019 12:00 | October 16, 2019 13:45 | 1h 45m | 256 | 193 |
| 10 | May 30, 2019 23:30 | May 31, 2019 13:00 | 13h 30m | 231 | 1,366 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 19 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 56.8 hrs | 6.30 | 7.7 hrs | 3.98 |
| 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 ÷ 4,062 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county