County annual report · FIPS 37061
2020 Duplin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Duplin County, NC went without power for an average of 17.2 hours, a total of 159K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 491st 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 Duplin 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 3, 2020 23:00 | August 5, 2020 22:00 | 1d 23h | 6,113 | 95K |
| 2 | September 28, 2020 20:15 | September 28, 2020 21:45 | 1h 30m | 4,478 | 1,121 |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 12:15 | February 8, 2020 03:15 | 15h | 1,975 | 6,522 |
| 4 | June 30, 2020 15:45 | July 1, 2020 00:00 | 8h 15m | 1,530 | 3,270 |
| 5 | April 6, 2020 23:45 | April 7, 2020 02:30 | 2h 45m | 1,450 | 2,553 |
| 6 | February 6, 2020 13:15 | February 7, 2020 10:45 | 21h 30m | 1,269 | 4,116 |
| 7 | April 13, 2020 07:15 | April 14, 2020 03:00 | 19h 45m | 1,247 | 3,205 |
| 8 | November 11, 2020 20:15 | November 12, 2020 02:45 | 6h 30m | 1,104 | 1,006 |
| 9 | May 19, 2020 21:15 | May 19, 2020 22:00 | 45m | 1,056 | 792 |
| 10 | February 21, 2020 04:00 | February 21, 2020 10:15 | 6h 15m | 1,055 | 2,692 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 53 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 Duplin 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,258 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. Duplin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Duplin 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/duplin-county