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2020 Nash County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Nash County, NC went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 211K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 951st 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 Nash 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 | February 6, 2020 18:45 | February 9, 2020 03:00 | 2d 8h | 6,702 | 99K |
| 2 | February 20, 2020 22:45 | February 21, 2020 22:45 | 1d | 2,388 | 13K |
| 3 | August 4, 2020 03:45 | August 5, 2020 01:30 | 21h 45m | 2,129 | 14K |
| 4 | January 15, 2020 10:45 | January 15, 2020 16:00 | 5h 15m | 2,094 | 3,733 |
| 5 | August 3, 2020 13:30 | August 4, 2020 02:45 | 13h 15m | 2,056 | 3,958 |
| 6 | January 12, 2020 10:30 | January 12, 2020 13:00 | 2h 30m | 1,914 | 4,306 |
| 7 | November 12, 2020 11:30 | November 12, 2020 16:31 | 5h 1m | 1,853 | 3,437 |
| 8 | October 29, 2020 15:15 | October 30, 2020 17:45 | 1d 2h | 1,397 | 3,416 |
| 9 | January 13, 2020 12:00 | January 13, 2020 13:15 | 1h 15m | 1,371 | 1,714 |
| 10 | November 30, 2020 16:15 | November 30, 2020 22:45 | 6h 30m | 1,280 | 1,481 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 77 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Nash 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 64 min | 0.92 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 1.53 | 57 min | 1.15 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (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 ÷ 26,243 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. Nash County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nash 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/nash-county