County annual report · FIPS 37041
2020 Chowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Chowan County, NC went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1149th 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 Chowan 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 06:30 | August 6, 2020 23:15 | 2d 16h | 3,308 | 56K |
| 2 | July 13, 2020 22:00 | July 14, 2020 03:00 | 5h | 1,609 | 6,283 |
| 3 | June 28, 2020 21:30 | June 29, 2020 00:00 | 2h 30m | 1,535 | 1,482 |
| 4 | June 29, 2020 13:15 | June 29, 2020 14:15 | 1h | 1,517 | 382 |
| 5 | December 16, 2020 20:45 | December 17, 2020 06:30 | 9h 45m | 1,007 | 5,707 |
| 6 | April 15, 2020 09:30 | April 15, 2020 12:15 | 2h 45m | 995 | 758 |
| 7 | July 2, 2020 00:15 | July 2, 2020 12:15 | 12h | 704 | 1,433 |
| 8 | February 21, 2020 03:00 | February 21, 2020 18:00 | 15h | 315 | 2,112 |
| 9 | October 29, 2020 19:00 | October 29, 2020 23:30 | 4h 30m | 172 | 544 |
| 10 | February 7, 2020 15:15 | February 8, 2020 17:45 | 1d 2h | 151 | 606 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 12 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 Chowan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 7.0 hrs | 1.66 | 1.9 hrs | 1.07 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Albemarle Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Edenton - (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 ÷ 12,047 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. Chowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chowan 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/chowan-county