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2020 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 796th 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 Northampton 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 06:45 | August 6, 2020 15:30 | 2d 8h | 2,583 | 24K |
| 2 | May 20, 2020 18:15 | May 20, 2020 18:45 | 30m | 2,098 | 1,049 |
| 3 | December 25, 2020 00:30 | December 25, 2020 02:15 | 1h 45m | 1,719 | 1,526 |
| 4 | October 29, 2020 16:30 | October 30, 2020 01:45 | 9h 15m | 1,304 | 1,815 |
| 5 | March 29, 2020 12:45 | March 30, 2020 12:15 | 23h 30m | 1,251 | 363 |
| 6 | July 16, 2020 20:00 | July 16, 2020 20:15 | 15m | 1,145 | 286 |
| 7 | October 9, 2020 22:00 | October 9, 2020 23:45 | 1h 45m | 790 | 1,225 |
| 8 | February 21, 2020 00:45 | February 23, 2020 03:15 | 2d 2h | 693 | 11K |
| 9 | June 17, 2020 12:30 | June 17, 2020 21:15 | 8h 45m | 557 | 1,391 |
| 10 | April 20, 2020 10:30 | April 20, 2020 11:30 | 1h | 476 | 268 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 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 Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 7.0 hrs | 1.66 | 1.9 hrs | 1.07 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county