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2019 Wilson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wilson County, NC went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2505th 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 Wilson 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 | October 24, 2019 18:30 | October 24, 2019 19:15 | 45m | 8,715 | 2,811 |
| 2 | August 13, 2019 20:45 | August 14, 2019 12:15 | 15h 30m | 2,263 | 3,687 |
| 3 | November 25, 2019 18:15 | November 25, 2019 19:45 | 1h 30m | 1,785 | 448 |
| 4 | September 5, 2019 22:15 | September 6, 2019 17:30 | 19h 15m | 1,773 | 3,418 |
| 5 | November 14, 2019 17:45 | November 14, 2019 18:00 | 15m | 1,728 | 432 |
| 6 | July 8, 2019 11:30 | July 8, 2019 14:00 | 2h 30m | 1,512 | 2,692 |
| 7 | August 19, 2019 20:00 | August 20, 2019 01:30 | 5h 30m | 1,165 | 1,422 |
| 8 | July 4, 2019 16:00 | July 4, 2019 17:15 | 1h 15m | 1,113 | 343 |
| 9 | December 8, 2019 09:00 | December 8, 2019 11:30 | 2h 30m | 1,058 | 2,381 |
| 10 | December 1, 2019 15:45 | December 1, 2019 17:45 | 2h | 655 | 820 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 34 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Wilson 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 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 2.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| 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 Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Black Creek - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Lucama - (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 ÷ 35,644 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. Wilson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilson 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/wilson-county