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2020 Edgecombe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Edgecombe County, NC went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2167th 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 Edgecombe 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 | July 28, 2020 21:15 | July 29, 2020 08:15 | 11h | 2,178 | 5,010 |
| 2 | February 6, 2020 19:45 | February 7, 2020 23:45 | 1d 4h | 1,115 | 4,882 |
| 3 | June 11, 2020 19:30 | June 12, 2020 00:00 | 4h 30m | 952 | 1,193 |
| 4 | August 10, 2020 10:45 | August 10, 2020 12:45 | 2h | 819 | 1,225 |
| 5 | April 13, 2020 13:00 | April 13, 2020 21:15 | 8h 15m | 810 | 1,368 |
| 6 | August 4, 2020 06:00 | August 6, 2020 19:30 | 2d 13h | 680 | 5,867 |
| 7 | August 22, 2020 02:45 | August 22, 2020 14:00 | 11h 15m | 674 | 2,490 |
| 8 | January 14, 2020 07:15 | January 14, 2020 09:15 | 2h | 645 | 1,290 |
| 9 | January 5, 2020 06:00 | January 5, 2020 14:45 | 8h 45m | 572 | 5,003 |
| 10 | September 3, 2020 22:00 | September 3, 2020 23:30 | 1h 30m | 566 | 708 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 27 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Edgecombe 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2020 | 74 min | 1.11 | 53 min | 0.88 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 1.53 | 57 min | 1.15 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of MacClesfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pinetops - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Tarboro - (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 ÷ 19,560 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. Edgecombe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Edgecombe 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/edgecombe-county