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2019 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 14.9 hours, a total of 268K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 337th 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 Wayne 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 | May 6, 2019 23:30 | May 7, 2019 01:00 | 1h 30m | 8,448 | 8,589 |
| 2 | September 5, 2019 20:45 | September 7, 2019 21:00 | 2d | 6,269 | 77K |
| 3 | July 12, 2019 01:30 | July 13, 2019 01:15 | 23h 45m | 2,606 | 11K |
| 4 | April 26, 2019 15:00 | April 26, 2019 17:30 | 2h 30m | 2,151 | 1,659 |
| 5 | October 15, 2019 13:30 | October 25, 2019 12:30 | 9d 23h | 1,906 | 97K |
| 6 | May 30, 2019 23:00 | May 31, 2019 17:45 | 18h 45m | 1,651 | 11K |
| 7 | November 6, 2019 11:45 | November 7, 2019 00:15 | 12h 30m | 1,544 | 5,962 |
| 8 | February 4, 2019 03:30 | February 4, 2019 07:30 | 4h | 1,203 | 3,443 |
| 9 | April 19, 2019 21:30 | April 20, 2019 07:15 | 9h 45m | 1,198 | 5,881 |
| 10 | July 23, 2019 13:30 | July 23, 2019 22:00 | 8h 30m | 1,050 | 1,204 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 56 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Wayne 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2018 | 40 min | 0.70 | 32 min | 0.60 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (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 ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county