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2020 Pitt County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pitt County, NC went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2891st 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 Pitt 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 05:30 | August 5, 2020 21:45 | 1d 16h | 763 | 9,059 |
| 2 | February 13, 2020 09:45 | February 13, 2020 12:45 | 3h | 647 | 972 |
| 3 | July 23, 2020 22:45 | July 24, 2020 01:15 | 2h 30m | 638 | 640 |
| 4 | January 13, 2020 19:15 | January 13, 2020 20:00 | 45m | 429 | 215 |
| 5 | February 21, 2020 02:15 | February 21, 2020 11:00 | 8h 45m | 278 | 989 |
| 6 | July 25, 2020 10:30 | July 25, 2020 12:30 | 2h | 251 | 329 |
| 7 | January 14, 2020 04:30 | January 14, 2020 09:15 | 4h 45m | 246 | 590 |
| 8 | October 20, 2020 16:00 | October 20, 2020 17:15 | 1h 15m | 163 | 197 |
| 9 | August 8, 2020 02:15 | August 8, 2020 04:30 | 2h 15m | 159 | 210 |
| 10 | January 3, 2020 15:00 | January 3, 2020 16:00 | 1h | 158 | 152 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Pitt 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 |
| Greenville Utilities Comm | 2020 | 74 min | 0.46 | 18 min | 0.24 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winterville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Ayden - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Farmville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fountain - (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 ÷ 80,606 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. Pitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pitt 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/pitt-county