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2020 Sampson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sampson County, NC went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 154K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 968th 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 Sampson 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 00:30 | August 5, 2020 16:00 | 1d 15h | 7,826 | 65K |
| 2 | November 12, 2020 14:15 | November 13, 2020 02:45 | 12h 30m | 4,837 | 1,691 |
| 3 | May 1, 2020 22:45 | May 2, 2020 00:45 | 2h | 3,857 | 3,158 |
| 4 | September 30, 2020 01:00 | September 30, 2020 05:30 | 4h 30m | 3,719 | 1,034 |
| 5 | February 7, 2020 09:00 | February 8, 2020 03:00 | 18h | 2,049 | 7,209 |
| 6 | July 1, 2020 12:45 | July 1, 2020 13:45 | 1h | 1,837 | 461 |
| 7 | May 22, 2020 23:15 | May 23, 2020 06:30 | 7h 15m | 1,591 | 2,796 |
| 8 | March 25, 2020 09:30 | March 25, 2020 13:45 | 4h 15m | 1,512 | 3,054 |
| 9 | June 7, 2020 00:45 | June 7, 2020 06:30 | 5h 45m | 1,509 | 3,666 |
| 10 | September 2, 2020 18:45 | September 3, 2020 01:45 | 7h | 1,506 | 3,815 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 70 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 Sampson 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,420 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. Sampson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sampson 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/sampson-county