County annual report · FIPS 37187
2020 Washington County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washington County, NC went without power for an average of 21.1 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 407th 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 Washington 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 02:45 | August 6, 2020 17:30 | 2d 14h | 4,383 | 67K |
| 2 | July 1, 2020 18:45 | July 1, 2020 23:30 | 4h 45m | 1,071 | 1,713 |
| 3 | June 15, 2020 18:00 | June 15, 2020 20:30 | 2h 30m | 1,001 | 1,662 |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 15:45 | February 8, 2020 19:45 | 1d 4h | 578 | 3,365 |
| 5 | February 21, 2020 00:45 | February 21, 2020 23:00 | 22h 15m | 342 | 1,931 |
| 6 | October 29, 2020 17:15 | October 29, 2020 23:15 | 6h | 281 | 625 |
| 7 | February 29, 2020 01:45 | February 29, 2020 04:30 | 2h 45m | 242 | 666 |
| 8 | July 31, 2020 14:00 | July 31, 2020 16:45 | 2h 45m | 231 | 68 |
| 9 | May 29, 2020 17:15 | May 29, 2020 18:30 | 1h 15m | 192 | 206 |
| 10 | May 18, 2020 05:45 | May 18, 2020 18:00 | 12h 15m | 164 | 1,353 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 19 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 14.1 hrs | 4.28 | 4.3 hrs | 3.14 |
| 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 ÷ 4,062 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county