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2020 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 10.4 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 761st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 4, 2020 03:15 | August 6, 2020 04:30 | 2d 1h | 9,626 | 127K |
| 2 | July 23, 2020 22:45 | July 24, 2020 00:30 | 1h 45m | 7,252 | 6,770 |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 13:30 | February 8, 2020 14:45 | 1d 1h | 5,616 | 15K |
| 4 | November 10, 2020 21:00 | November 11, 2020 00:15 | 3h 15m | 1,908 | 3,344 |
| 5 | April 18, 2020 16:15 | April 18, 2020 17:45 | 1h 30m | 1,756 | 924 |
| 6 | July 31, 2020 15:45 | July 31, 2020 16:45 | 1h | 1,717 | 1,421 |
| 7 | July 2, 2020 02:00 | July 2, 2020 03:15 | 1h 15m | 1,625 | 1,155 |
| 8 | April 6, 2020 22:45 | April 7, 2020 01:30 | 2h 45m | 1,234 | 1,578 |
| 9 | July 8, 2020 11:15 | July 8, 2020 17:30 | 6h 15m | 1,138 | 608 |
| 10 | May 28, 2020 18:00 | May 28, 2020 22:30 | 4h 30m | 1,133 | 1,370 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 54 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 Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 1.66 | 3.5 hrs | 1.66 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 14.1 hrs | 4.28 | 4.3 hrs | 3.14 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/beaufort-county