County annual report · FIPS 37015
2020 Bertie County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bertie County, NC went without power for an average of 17.7 hours, a total of 180K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 476th 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 Bertie 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 05:45 | August 10, 2020 12:30 | 6d 6h | 5,381 | 105K |
| 2 | October 13, 2020 04:15 | October 13, 2020 05:45 | 1h 30m | 2,171 | 2,183 |
| 3 | February 20, 2020 23:45 | February 25, 2020 05:45 | 4d 6h | 1,879 | 22K |
| 4 | July 3, 2020 01:45 | July 3, 2020 05:30 | 3h 45m | 1,696 | 3,039 |
| 5 | February 7, 2020 14:00 | February 9, 2020 01:00 | 1d 11h | 1,560 | 9,816 |
| 6 | September 30, 2020 03:30 | September 30, 2020 21:00 | 17h 30m | 1,262 | 1,559 |
| 7 | May 22, 2020 09:00 | May 22, 2020 13:00 | 4h | 1,261 | 2,783 |
| 8 | October 12, 2020 12:00 | October 12, 2020 14:00 | 2h | 1,191 | 1,190 |
| 9 | February 20, 2020 11:00 | February 20, 2020 18:30 | 7h 30m | 1,175 | 1,785 |
| 10 | October 6, 2020 19:15 | October 7, 2020 02:15 | 7h | 747 | 806 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 47 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 Bertie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 1.66 | 3.5 hrs | 1.66 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 7.0 hrs | 1.66 | 1.9 hrs | 1.07 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Windsor- (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 ÷ 10,165 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. Bertie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bertie 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/bertie-county