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2020 Halifax County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Halifax County, NC went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1817th 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 Halifax 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 | October 29, 2020 11:30 | October 30, 2020 18:30 | 1d 7h | 2,128 | 2,030 |
| 2 | November 2, 2020 05:30 | November 2, 2020 16:15 | 10h 45m | 1,891 | 6,788 |
| 3 | September 11, 2020 10:15 | September 11, 2020 16:15 | 6h | 1,611 | 1,182 |
| 4 | June 19, 2020 12:00 | June 22, 2020 15:45 | 3d 3h | 1,419 | 2,443 |
| 5 | February 6, 2020 19:00 | February 9, 2020 05:15 | 2d 10h | 1,411 | 12K |
| 6 | September 30, 2020 19:30 | October 1, 2020 01:15 | 5h 45m | 1,379 | 1,124 |
| 7 | April 17, 2020 16:45 | April 18, 2020 00:45 | 8h | 926 | 1,092 |
| 8 | July 23, 2020 21:30 | July 24, 2020 02:00 | 4h 30m | 846 | 2,211 |
| 9 | August 28, 2020 15:30 | August 28, 2020 17:30 | 2h | 784 | 1,529 |
| 10 | June 18, 2020 06:00 | June 18, 2020 11:45 | 5h 45m | 757 | 2,192 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Halifax 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 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 7.0 hrs | 1.66 | 1.9 hrs | 1.07 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Enfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hobgood | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Scotland Neck - (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 ÷ 28,826 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. Halifax County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Halifax 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/halifax-county