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2020 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1009th 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 Wayne 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 21, 2020 00:30 | February 21, 2020 17:30 | 17h | 3,131 | 9,511 |
| 2 | February 7, 2020 10:30 | February 9, 2020 01:30 | 1d 15h | 2,096 | 15K |
| 3 | July 20, 2020 19:45 | July 21, 2020 03:30 | 7h 45m | 2,092 | 9,462 |
| 4 | November 11, 2020 04:45 | November 11, 2020 12:00 | 7h 15m | 1,950 | 7,929 |
| 5 | January 21, 2020 14:45 | January 22, 2020 13:30 | 22h 45m | 1,907 | 29K |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 11:15 | April 13, 2020 23:45 | 12h 30m | 1,596 | 3,574 |
| 7 | August 9, 2020 02:45 | August 9, 2020 11:30 | 8h 45m | 1,425 | 10K |
| 8 | May 16, 2020 10:15 | May 16, 2020 12:30 | 2h 15m | 1,202 | 302 |
| 9 | September 30, 2020 00:45 | September 30, 2020 09:30 | 8h 45m | 1,112 | 1,182 |
| 10 | February 20, 2020 16:45 | February 20, 2020 22:15 | 5h 30m | 1,074 | 1,083 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 66 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Wayne 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2020 | 74 min | 1.11 | 53 min | 0.88 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (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 ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county